Baudrillard with Nietzsche and Heidegger: A Contrastive Analysis (Studies in Historical Philosophy)

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Vanessa Freerks analyzes how Baudrillard re-actualizes Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morals, investigating how themes and approaches in Baudrillard’s Consumer Society, Simulacra and Simulations and Symbolic Exchange and Death resonate with Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morals. This book fills a gap in the limited literature available on the relation between Baudrillard’s thought to that of Nietzsche and Heidegger. Baudrillard with Nietzsche and Heidegger: A Contrastive Analysis is essential reading for students and scholars of Continental Philosophy, sociology, and cultural theory. Acknowledgements Abstract Introduction Chapter Outline 1. The Morality of Consumption: Reading Baudrillard’s Consumer Society with Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morals Introduction 1.1 Baudrillard Reading Nietzsche 1.2 Baudrillard’s critical semiology 1.3 Aristocratic and Slave Narratives Conclusion 2. Processes of Subjection and the Figure of the Ascetic Priest Introduction 2.1 The Genesis of the Subject 2.2 Economies of Debt and Exchange in Nietzsche and Baudrillard 2.3 The “Liturgy of Solicitude” 2.4 Ascetic ideals and consumer society Conclusion 3. The End of Transcendence in Consumer Society Introduction 3.1 Wasteful Expenditure 3.2 Ascetic consumption 3.3 Pseudo-Events in Consumer Society Conclusion 4. The Reversal of Platonism Introduction 4.1 The Reversal of Platonism 4.2 The Simulacrum and the Motivation for Plato’s Method of Division 4.3 Baudrillard’s Simulacrum Conclusion 5. Hyperreality of Simulation Introduction 5.1 Genealogy of Simulacra 5.2 The Hyperreal Structural Law of Value 5.3 The Causes of Simulation 5.3.1 Simulation as an economic effect 5.3.2 Simulation as media effect 5.3.3 Simulation and the Death of God Conclusion 6. Baudrillard and Heidegger: Towards a Genealogy of Death Introduction 6.1 Death and Subjectivity 6.2 Baudrillard (Re-)socializing Death 6.3 Beyond death as natural fatality 6.4 (Re-) Situating Heidegger and Baudrillard Conclusion Concluding Remarks and Summary of the Study 7. Bibliography Index