Forget Foucault, New Edition

by Jean Baudrillard

Characterizing it as a "mythic discourse," Jean Baudrillard proceeds, in this brilliant essay, to dismantle the powerful, seductive figure of Michel Foucault.

In 1976, Jean Baudrillard sent this essay to the French magazine Critique, where Michel Foucault was an editor. Foucault was asked to reply, but remained silent. Forget Foucault (1977) made Baudrillard instantly infamous in France. It was a devastating revisitation of Foucault's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1584350415
• ISBN13: 9781584350415
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: Semiotext(e)
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher