A critique of Baudrillard's hyperreality
Towards a Sociology of Postmodernism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7102582 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anthony King (0000-0002-8131-396X, University of Exeter, Department of Sociology, Exeter, UK, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 47-66 |
| Publication date | 1998-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Philosophy & Social Criticism (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0191-4537 • E-ISSN: 1461-734X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/019145379802400603 |
| OpenAlex | W2013063836 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 24 |
Through the critical examination of Baudrillard's concept of hyperreality, this article seeks to make a wider contribution to contempor ary debates about postmodernism. It draws on a post-Cartesian, Heideg gerian philosophy to demonstrate the weakness of the concept of hyperreality and reveal its foundation in a Cartesian epistemology. The article goes on to claim that this same Heideggerian tradition suggests a way in which the concept of hyperreality and nihilistic postmodern sociologies more generally might be dialectically superseded. Instead of these theories being seen as saying anything insightful about recent social transformations, the epistemological void in which they position themselves should be inter preted as the intellectual expression of the wider cultural and postmodern trend of transgression
Aesthetics · Epistemology · Postmodernism · Postmodernity · Sociology · Art, Politics, and Modernism · Philosophy · Sociology and Norbert Elias · Violence, Religion, and Philosophy
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Symbolic Exchange and Death
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Central Problems in Social Theory
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Is there a Postmodern Sociology
In Pursuit of the Postmodern
Work and Weltanschauung
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,12 |
| Citation span | 2000 - 2020 (21) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |