Seducing the void: an exploration of Baudrillard's phenomenology of absence.

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dc.contributor.authorMcCartney, Jenny
dc.contributor.supervisorKroker, Arthur
dc.date.accessioned2011-05-02T17:45:11Z
dc.date.available2011-05-02T17:45:11Z
dc.date.copyright2011en_US
dc.date.issued2011-05-02
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Political Science
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts M.A.en_US
dc.description.abstractThis thesis attempts to illuminate new approaches to the thought of Jean Baudrillard, by understanding his unique phenomenological approach and radical affirmation of experience. This will be considered through an exploration of some interesting distinctions between his work and Friedrich Nietzsche’s. Where Nietzsche attempts to fall out of exchange with the world, it will be found that Baudrillard’s work is attempting to enact a kind of tension with things. This aspect of Baudrillard’s work will be examined through some interesting connections to the later work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, specifically through the concept of reversibility. These connections and distinctions will gather in some important insights on Baudrillard’s approach to the topics of void, the hyperreal and relationality. Moreover, through exploring the intricacies of his phenomenological approach, I hope to understand more clearly what it means to sink into appearances, and to locate the subject wholly within the tensions of relations and forces enigmatic to it.en_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/3276
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectphenomenologyen_US
dc.subjectBaudrillarden_US
dc.subjectNietzscheen_US
dc.subjectvoiden_US
dc.subjectMerleau-Pontyen_US
dc.subjectseductionen_US
dc.subjectnihilismen_US
dc.titleSeducing the void: an exploration of Baudrillard's phenomenology of absence.en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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