Gary J Shipley

Stratagem of the Corpse (eBook, ePUB)

Dying with Baudrillard, a Study of Sickness and Simulacra

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book is unique in its dedicated tackling of the subject of death in the work of Jean Baudrillard. Through new readings of his work, juxtaposed with philosophical (Schopenhauer, Kant) and artistic (Jeremy Millar, Ron Mueck) examples along with films (Norte, the End of History; Ida), the book makes so patently clear the importance of Baudrillard's tendency to poeticize, his core indebtedness to Georges Bataille, Alfred Jarry, and others, and his reliance on paradox. Ultimately, Stratagem of the Corpse is less a making sense of death and more a transcript of what occurred when death made sense of us, a reverse thanatology in which death delineates the variant forms of our encroachment, not so much death as seen by Baudrillard but Baudrillard as seen by death.

Examples of Baudrillardian simulacra, depersonalization, detachment, violence, obscenity, Baudrillard's notion of the 'perfect crime', and nihilism are incisively discussed. The book makes a compelling case for why Baudrillard is relevant and necessary.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781785272776
• Artikelnr.: 58546184

Autorenporträt

Gary J. Shipley, independent scholar and writer, is the author of ten books, and has published widely in literary journals, academic journals and anthologies. He has taught philosophy at the University of Kent.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Introduction
Chapter 1 On Decay and Other Synthetics
Chapter 2 Stratagem of the Corpse
Chapter 3 A Bleak Non-History of History
Chapter 4 The Hyperactivity of Objects
Chapter 5 The Unnamable Catastrophe
Chapter 6 A Cure For Vertigo
Chapter 7 Chance and the Temporality of Death
Chapter 8 The Possibility of Nihilism
Chapter 9 Smell-O-Vision: The Murder Show
Chapter 10 The Evil Death
Chapter 11 False Confessions and the Madness of Death: Making Death Speak
Chapter 12 The Black Light: Nigredo and Catastrophe
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
Appendix 3
Index.