Baudrillard and Heidegger

Between Two Deaths

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ID2353145
AuthorsVanessa Anne-Cecile Freerks (0000-0003-2774-9663, University of Johannesburg, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume39
Issue6
Pages87-104
Publication date2022-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueTheory Culture & Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0263-2764 • E-ISSN: 1460-3616
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/02632764211070279
OpenAlexW4211258370
LanguageEN
References cited15

In this article, I compare the ways in which Baudrillard and Heidegger seek to bring attention to the importance of death for our personal existential situation which has now become repressed in conceptions of existence and society. Heidegger critiques public conceptions of death that serve to cover up its importance. Less well known is that, somewhat in parallel fashion, Baudrillard charts a 'genealogy' of the 'extradition' of the dead from the centre of the social and he claims that we live currently in a death denying society. This reduces the meaning of our own impending deaths. However, unlike Heidegger, Baudrillard's 'genealogical' critique of the exclusion of death in modern society is not a one-way dismissal because he proposes an alternative social role for death in the form of 'primitive symbolic exchange

Cover (algebra · Dismissal · Epistemology · Existentialism · Meaning (existential · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Art, Politics, and Modernism · Cultural Studies and Postmodernism · Law · Nostalgia and Consumer Behavior · Philosophy · Psychology

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