{"product_id":"fragments-isbn-9781844675739","title":"Fragments","description":"This third book in the \u003ci\u003eCool Memories\u003c\/i\u003e series is culled from Baudrillard’s notebooks in the period when he was composing \u003ci\u003eThe Illusion of the End\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Perfect Crime\u003c\/i\u003e. In it, he resumes his investigation of the meta-metaphysics of objects. Like its predecessors, the book is a work of brief meditations, of poetic musings: in a word, of fragments.“Prophet of the apocalypse, hysterical lyricist of panic, obsessive recounter of the desolation of the postmodern scene and currently the hottest property on the New York intellectual circuit.”—\u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The most important French thinker of the past twenty years.”—J. G. Ballard\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A sharp-shooting lone-ranger from the post-Marxist left.”—\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\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.","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304609108197,"sku":"NP9781844675739","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781844675739.jpg?v=1767727626","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/fragments-isbn-9781844675739","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}