Symbolic Exchange and DeathJean Baudrillard is one of the most celebrated and most controversial of contemporary social theorists. This major work occupies a central place in the rethinking of the humanities and social sciences around the idea of postmodernism.
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The Exchange of Death in the Primitive Order 1. Symbolic/Real/Imaginary 2. The Inevitable Exchange 3. The Unconscious and the Primitive Order 4. The Double and the Split Political Economy and Death The Death Drive Death in Bataille My ...
... to this agenda by calling for a new mode of theorising that 'will bring all the force and questioning of primitive societies to bear on Marxism and psychoanalysis' (1975: 108) as well as political economy as a whole (see below).
Baudrillard pushes this logic to forge a new position: in primitive societies where the symbolic order rules, there is no real, no necessity, no production, no scarcity, no unconscious, no law (see 1975: 60). It gradually becomes clear ...
confined to socalled primitive societies. Indeed, he adopts Durkheim's thesis that these processes are constraining just as consumption is constraining and not to be analysed as the free play of individual choice.
... semiotic order (the obligation of gift over the cash nexus) while witnessing the apparent destruction of the former by the latter. Against the Marxists, Baudrillard appears more radical, and more primitive. But there are surprises.