by Paul Austin Murphy (November 2015)
Jean Baudrillard was a well-known French philosopher and sociologist. He died in 2007.
Baudrillard, along with Jean-François Lyotard, more or less invented postmodernism – or at least provided its theoretical underpinnings. Baudrillard also said (amongst other things) that “[r]eality itself is too obvious to be true” and that “truth does not exist” [in Fragments: Cool Memories III]. more>>>
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One Response
Good get Paul. given all the energy that the Left expended on the Vietnam War, you have to wonder where there stand on the plethora of small wars since, the jihad if you will. The post-modern Left sees itself on the right side if history in the same sense as did Heidegger when he abandoned civilization for the Nazis. The truth about the Left is banal. With no skin in the game, like a draft, the post-modern is just another herd, indeed mustabators.