The Transparency of Evil: Essays on Extreme Phenomena, Paperback/Jean Baudrillard

The renowned postmodernist philosopher's tour-de-force contemplation of sex, technology, politics and disease in Western culture after the revolutionary 'orgy' of the 1960s. About the Author: Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007) began teaching sociology at the Universit 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 Simulations and Simulacra , America , The Perfect Crime , The System of Objects , Passwords , The Transparency of Evil , The Spirit of Terrorism , and Fragments , among others.