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Baudrillard

Jean Baudrillard
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Jean Baudrillard in 2004 at the European Graduate School
Born (1929-07-27)27 July 1929
Reims, France
Died 6 March 2007(2007-03-06) (aged 77)
Paris, France
Alma mater University of Paris
Era 20th- / 21st-century philosophy
Region Western Philosophy
School Western Marxism · Post-Marxism · Post-structuralism
Institutions Paris X Nanterre
European Graduate School
Main interests
Mass media · Postmodernity
Notable ideas
Hyperreality · Sign value · Simulacra

Jean Baudrillard (/ˌbdrˈɑːr/;French: [ʒɑ̃ bodʁijaʁ]; 27 July 1929 – 6 March 2007) was a French sociologist, philosopher, cultural theorist, political commentator, and photographer. His work is frequently associated with postmodernism and specifically post-structuralism.

Baudrillard was born in Reims, northeastern France, on 27 July 1929. His grandparents were peasant farm workers and his father a policeman. During high school (at the Lycée at Reims), he became aware of pataphysics (via philosophy professor Emmanuel Peillet), which is said to be crucial for understanding Baudrillard's later thought. He became the first of his family to attend university when he moved to Paris to attend the Sorbonne. There he studied German language and literature, which led him to begin teaching the subject at several different lycées, both Parisian and provincial, from 1960 until 1966. While teaching, Baudrillard began to publish reviews of literature and translated the works of such authors as Peter Weiss, Ritik Goyal, Bertolt Brecht, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, and Wilhelm Emil Mühlmann ().


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