Librería Bonilla. Desde 1950

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	Editorial:	Año: 2014
	Tema:	Edición: 1ª
	Sinopsis	ISBN: 9781584351290
	The Divine Left is Jean Baudrillard s chronicle of French political life from 1977 to 1984. It offers the closest thing to political analysis to be found from a thinker who has too often been regarded as apolitical. Gathering texts that originally appeared as newspaper commentary on Franois Mitterand s rise to power as France s first Socialist president and the Socialist Party s fraught alliance with the French Communist Party, The Divine Left in essence presents Baudrillard s theory of the simulacrum as it operates in the political sphere. In France, the Left, and even the ultra-Left, had been seduced by power. This scenario -- dissected by Baudrillard with deadpan humor and an almost chilling nonchalance -- produced a Socialist Party that devoted itself to rallying the market economy and introducing neoliberalism, and replaced an intellectual class with the media stars and hyper-professionals of the spectacle. Starting from the elections of 1977, Baudrillard analyzes -- in real time, as it were -- how the Left s taking of power had in fact been an enaction of not just its own death throes, but those of power itself. The Divine Left outlines a simulation of politics that offers discomfiting parallels to our political world today, a trajectory that has only grown more apparent in recent years: the desire and intention to fail.

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