The Spirit of Terrorism

Resumen del libro

Baudrillard sees the power of the terrorists as lying in the symbolism of slaughter-not merely the reality of death, but in a sacrifice that challenges the whole system. Where previously the old revolutionary sought to conduct a struggle between real forces in the context of ideology and politics, the new terrorist mounts a powerful symbolic challenge which, when combined with high-tech resources, constitutes an unprecedented assault on an over-sophisticated and vulnerable West. This new edition is up-dated with the essays "Hypotheses on Terrorism" and "Violence of the Global."

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>