The Intelligence of Evil : or, The Lucidity Pact

Resumen del libro

In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, after the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq and at the height of the "War on Terror", the controversial postmodernist thinker Jean Baudrillard wrote The Intelligence of Evil. In tackling the rhetoric of the so-called "clash of civilizations" between a capitalist West and a fundamentalist religious Islam, the book also provides a summation of many of the most important themes of Baurdrillard's philosophical project. Baudrillard here explores how neoliberal political rhetoric has divided human cultures are divided into two antagonistic forces, one based on symbolic exchange, which is dual and reciprocal, and one based on money and sign exchange, which is totalising.

Non-western societies can create genuinely symbolic, durable cultures. But the western world-system, based on a logic of empire, is designed to create an integrated and sealed reality, to snap tight around the world and its image. If the first is indestructible and the second is irresistible, who can win and what will victory look like?

Biografía del autor

p Jean Baudrillard es uno de los más interesantes y provocativos pensadores de nuestro tiempo. En Anagrama se han publicado las obras siguientes: "Las estrategias fatales", "La izquierda divina", "El otro por sí mismo", "América", "Cool Memories", "La transparencia del mal", "La guerra del Golfo no ha tenido lugar", "La ilusión del fin", "El crimen perfecto", "El paroxista indiferente" y "Pantalla total".<br>