Jean Baudrillard

<p><strong>Jean Baudrillard</strong> (<span class="nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt"><a title="Help:IPA/English" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/English">/<span title="/ˌ/: secondary stress follows">ˌboʊdriˈɑːr</span>/</a></span></span>; <small>French: </small><span class="IPA" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)"><a title="Help:IPA/French" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/French">[ʒɑ̃ bodʁijaʁ]</a></span>; 27 July 1929 – 6 March 2007) was a French <a title="Sociology" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociology">sociologist</a>, philosopher, <a title="Sociology of culture" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociology_of_culture">cultural theorist</a>, political commentator, and photographer. He is best known for his analyses of media, contemporary culture, and technological communication, as well as his formulation of concepts such as <a title="Simulation" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulation">simulation</a> and <a title="Hyperreality" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperreality">hyperreality</a>. He wrote about diverse subjects, including <a title="Consumerism" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumerism">consumerism</a>, <a title="Gender role" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_role">gender relations</a>, economics, <a title="Social history" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_history">social history</a>, art, Western <a title="Foreign policy" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_policy">foreign policy</a>, and popular culture. Among his best known works are <em><a title="Simulacra and Simulation" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacra_and_Simulation">Simulacra and Simulation</a></em> (1981), <em>America</em> (1986), and <em><a title="The Gulf War Did Not Take Place" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gulf_War_Did_Not_Take_Place">The Gulf War Did Not Take Place</a></em> (1991). His work is frequently associated with <a title="Postmodern philosophy" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodern_philosophy">postmodernism</a> and specifically <a title="Post-structuralism" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-structuralism">post-structuralism</a>.</p>

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<div>Baudrillard in 2004 at the <a title="European Graduate School" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Graduate_School">European Graduate School</a></div>

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<td>1929

<div class="birthplace"><a title="Reims" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reims">Reims</a>, France</div>

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<td>2007 (aged 77)

<div class="deathplace"><a title="Paris" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris">Paris</a>, France</div>

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<th scope="row">Alma mater</th>

<td><a class="mw-redirect" title="University of Paris" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Paris">University of Paris</a></td>

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<td class="category"><a title="20th-century philosophy" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th-century_philosophy">20th-</a>/<a class="mw-redirect" title="21st-century philosophy" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21st-century_philosophy">21st-century philosophy</a></td>

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<th scope="row">Region</th>

<td class="category"><a title="Western philosophy" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_philosophy">Western philosophy</a></td>

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<th scope="row"><a title="List of schools of philosophy" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_schools_of_philosophy">School</a></th>

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<li><a title="" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_philosophy">Continental philosophy</a></li>

<li><a title="Western Marxism" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Marxism">Western Marxism</a></li>

<li><a title="Post-Marxism" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-Marxism">post-Marxism</a><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Baudrillard#cite_note-1">[1]</a></sup></li>

<li><a title="Post-structuralism" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-structuralism">post-structuralism</a></li>

<li><a title="Postmodern philosophy" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodern_philosophy">postmodernism</a></li>

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<li><a class="mw-redirect" title="Paris X Nanterre" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_X_Nanterre">Paris X Nanterre</a></li>

<li><a title="European Graduate School" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Graduate_School">European Graduate School</a></li>

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<th scope="row"><a title="Doctoral advisor" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctoral_advisor">Doctoral advisor</a></th>

<td><a title="Henri Lefebvre" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Lefebvre">Henri Lefebvre</a></td>

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<div>Main interests</div>

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<li><a title="Mass media" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_media">Mass media</a></li>

<li><a title="Postmodernity" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodernity">postmodernity</a></li>

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<div>Notable ideas</div>

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<li><a title="Hyperreality" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperreality">Hyperreality</a></li>

<li><a title="Sign value" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sign_value">sign value</a></li>

<li><a class="mw-redirect" title="Simulacra" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacra">simulacra</a></li>

<li><a class="mw-redirect" title="Desert of the real" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert_of_the_real">desert of the real</a></li>

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<div class="NavHead">Influences<a id="NavToggle1" class="NavToggle" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Baudrillard">[show]</a></div>

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