{"product_id":"the-illusion-of-the-end-9780804725019","title":"The Illusion of the End","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe year 2000, the end of the millennium: is this anything other than a mirage, the illusion of an end, like so many other imaginary endpoints which have littered the path of history?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn this remarkable book Jean Baurdrillard--France's leading theorist of postmodernity--argues that the notion of the end is part of the fantasy of a linear history. Today we are not approaching the end of history but moving into reverse, into a process of systematic obliteration. We are wiping out the entire twentieth century, effacing all signs of the cold War one by one, perhaps even the signs of the First and Second World Wars and of the political and ideological revolutions of our time. In short, we are engaged in a gigantic process of historical revisionism, and we seem in a hurry to finish it before the end of the century, secretly hoping perhaps to be able to begin again from scratch.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBaudrillard explores the \"fatal strategies of time\" which shape our ways of thinking about history and its imaginary end. Ranging from the revolutions in Eastern Europe to the Gulf War, from the transformation of nature to the hyper-reality of the media, this postmodern mediation on modernity and its aftermath will be widely read.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJean Baudrillard was born in Reims in 1929. He taught sociology at the University of Paris X (Nanterre). Among his works translated into English are \u003ci\u003eIn the Shadow of the Silent Majorities\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSimulations and Simulacra\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFatal Strategies\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSeduction\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAmerica\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCool Memories\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Transparency of Evil\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50461180494098,"sku":"9780804725019","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e71dbf3c-8e87-46de-87b2-7f4a2609da86.jpg?v=1730059257","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-illusion-of-the-end-9780804725019","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}