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Jean Baudrillard, The Intelligence of Evil or the Lucidity Pact.

Publication: The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology
Publication Date: 01-NOV-06 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Jean Baudrillard, The Intelligence of Evil or the Lucidity Pact.(Book review)

Article Excerpt
JEAN BAUDRILLARD, The Intelligence of Evil or the Lucidity Pact. New York: Berg, 2005, 213 p.

This book gathers, deepens and extends Baudrillard's thought of the past two decades and may well enjoy a similar relationship with sociology as has C. Wright Mills' The Sociological Imagination. It is a book likely to be ignored by leading sociologists of the day, yet one that will be remembered as having served a death sentence upon the discipline as it was once known.

Baudrillard engages with our loss of passion for reality and truth, which has not ended because of a lack of them, but rather, "it is the excess of reality that makes us stop believing in it" (19). Our condition (which has long made Baudrillard very uncomfortable) involves the technical saturation of life in what he terms Integral Reality: "the perpetrating on the world of an unlimited operational project whereby everything becomes real, everything becomes visible and transparent, everything is 'liberated,' everything comes to fruition and has a meaning ...." (17). We are fundamentalists of a reality that is now disappearing into virtual reality, whereby we find the disintegration of the reality principle itself. The debate about meaning and truth which has been deepening for twenty years in the academy here...

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