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JEAN BAUDRILLARD (1929-2007) began teaching sociology at the Universite de Paris-X in 1966. He retired from academia in 1987 to write books and travel until his death in 2007. His many works include The Transparency of Evil, The System of Objects, The Perfect Crime, and The Spirit of Terrorism, all from Verso.
Occasionally provocative and almost always infuriating ... America is filled with perceptive, almost poetic observations. * Rolling Stone * Since de Tocqueville, French thinkers have been fascinated with America. But when it comes to mysterious paradoxes and lyrical complexity no French intellectual matches Jean Baudrillard in contemplating the New World. * The New York Times * A mixture of crazy notions and dead-on insights, America is a valuable (and voluble) picture of what Mr. Baudrillard calls 'the only remaining primitive society' ... ours. * The New York Times Book Review *
