from Verso Books (January 31, 2006)
9781844670536 |
details & prices | 224 pages | 5.00 × 7.75 × 0.75 in. | 0.58 lbs | List price $16.95
About: A cultural critique of the commodity in consumer society, The System of Objects is a tour de force – a theoretical letter-in-a-bottle tossed into the ocean in 1968, which brilliantly communicates to us all the live ideas of the day.
from Verso Books (July 1, 1996)
9781859840689 |
details & prices | 205 pages | 8.00 × 8.50 × 0.75 in. | 1.20 lbs | List price $20.00
About: Published for the first time in English, this is Jean Baudrillard's earliest book, written in 1968, at a time when (as the author would put it later), "The society of the spectacle and its denunciation were still the focal point of semiological, psychoanalytical and sociological arguments".