Jean Baudrillard Retrieved: In “the Shadow of the Silent Majorities” and in the Scintillating “Transparency of Evil” Cover Image

Jean Baudrillard regăsit: în „umbra majorităţilor tăcute” și în scintilanta „transparenţă a răului”
Jean Baudrillard Retrieved: In “the Shadow of the Silent Majorities” and in the Scintillating “Transparency of Evil”

Author(s): Henrieta Anișoara Șerban
Subject(s): Contemporary Philosophy
Published by: Editura Academiei Române
Keywords: Jean Baudrillard; meaning and society; hyperreality;

Summary/Abstract: The social philosophy associated with the end of the social by Jean Baudrillard describes a counterweight to that “statistical crystal ball” that sociologists and politicians count on, and Baudillard’s work as a whole has been hastily identified as “sociology” rather than philosophy as constituted in fact. In the “shadow” of “the silent majorities” contributes something more than a simple analysis of the social and the nature of the phenomenon called “the mass”. The work represents a philosophical, political and poetic manifesto against political illusions, describing contemporary realities dissolving for meaning and sociality, for politics and politics, associated with the “end of ideologies”. Baudrillard is a philosopher of meanings and their elusive dance in a persistent contemporary hyperreality of uniformities, affirming and reaffirming our daily kingdom of the “transparent” evil, the mark of the endlessly unfirming world in which we are still living.

  • Issue Year: LXX/2023
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 231-244
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Romanian
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