French Philosopher Jean Baudrillard Dies, Age 77
March 7th, 2007 by Roderick Russell
Temporarily cut-off from the media while traveling from show to show, I didn’t learn until today that French thinker Jean Baudrillard passed away in Paris yesterday at age 77.
Not prone to re-blogging, time nonetheless forces my hand today. I give you the Associated Press article about his death.
From the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy:
French theorist Jean Baudrillard (1929–2007) was one of the foremost intellectual figures of the present age whose work combines philosophy, social theory, and an idiosyncratic cultural metaphysics that reflects on key events of phenomena of the epoch. A sharp critic of contemporary society, culture, and thought, Baudrillard is often seen as a major guru of French postmodern theory, although he can also be read as a thinker who combines social theory and philosophy in original and provocative ways and a writer who has developed his own style and forms of writing.
Ironically enough (for those that know his thought), after hearing the report on NPR while driving, I’ve been unable to find much media coverage of the event.
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