{"product_id":"the-perfect-crime-paperback","title":"The Perfect Crime - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJean Baudrillard\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eChris Turner\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn his new book, perhaps the most cogent expression of his mature thought, Jean Baudrillard turns detective in order to investigate a crime which he hopes may yet be solved: the \"murder\" of reality. To solve the crime would be to unravel the social and technological processes by which reality has quite simply vanished under the deadly glare of media \"real time.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut Baudrillard is not merely intending to lament the disappearance of the real, an occurrence he recently described as \"the most important event of modern history,\" nor even to meditate upon the paradoxes of reality and illusion, truth and its masks. \u003ci\u003eThe Perfect Crime\u003c\/i\u003e is also the work of a great moraliste: a penetrating examination of vital aspects of the social, political and cultural life of the \"advanced democracies\" in the (very) late twentieth century. Where critics like McLuhan once exposed the alienating consequences of \"the medium,\" Baudrillard lays bare the depredatory effects of an oppressive transparency on our social lives, of a relentless positivity on our critical faculties, and of a withering 'high definition' on our very sense of reality.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJean Baudrillard\u003c\/b\u003e (1929-2007) began teaching sociology at the Université de Paris-X in 1966. He retired from academia in 1987 to write books and travel until his death in 2007. His many works include \u003ci\u003eSimulations and Simulacra\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAmerica\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Perfect Crime\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe System of Objects\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePasswords\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Transparency of Evil\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Spirit of Terrorism\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eFragments\u003c\/i\u003e, among others.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 176\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 7.81 x 5.06 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 17, 2008\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51760179511584,"sku":"9781844672035","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/e4f6d82a47d4b15c98cfb43e7fd1dbe3.webp?v=1780173736","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-perfect-crime-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}