Seduction
Date
1990
Authors
Baudrillard, Jean
Singer, Brian
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Publisher
New World Perspectives
Abstract
Seduction is Jean Baudrillard’s most provocative book. Here, under the sign of seduction, all modern theory is put into question. Seduction speaks of the sudden reversibility in the order of things where discourse is absorbed into its own signs without a trace of meaning. In the sudden triumph of seduction in apocalyptic culture there is also signaled the end of history. As Baudrillard says, “Nothing can be greater than seduction itself, not even the order that destroys it.”
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Keywords
seduction, discourse, apocalyptic culture, end of history, reversibility, sexuality
Citation
Baudrillard, J. (1990). Seduction (B. Singer, Trans.). Montréal, QC: New World Perspectives.