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Jean Baudrillard

1929 - 2007

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Jean Baudrillard (UK: , US: ; French: [ʒɑ̃ bodʁijaʁ]; 27 July 1929 – 6 March 2007) was a French sociologist and philosopher with an interest in cultural studies. He is best known for his analyses of media, contemporary culture, and technological communication, as well as his formulation of concepts such as hyperreality. Baudrillard wrote about diverse subjects, including consumerism, critique of economy, social history, aesthetics, Western foreign policy, and popular culture. Among his most well-known works are Seduction (1978), Simulacra and Simulation (1981), America (1986), and The Gulf War Did Not Take Place (1991). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jean Baudrillard is the 185th most popular philosopher (down from 166th in 2019), the 422nd most popular biography from France (down from 368th in 2019) and the 21st most popular French Philosopher.

Jean Baudrillard is most famous for his theory of simulacra, which he defines as a copy without an original. Baudrillard argues that we live in a world of media images and simulations, where the real has been replaced by the virtual.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Jean Baudrillard ranks 185 out of 1,267. Before him are Ram Mohan Roy, Julien Offray de La Mettrie, Carl Schmitt, Cesare Beccaria, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Claude Adrien Helvétius. After him are Sextus Empiricus, José Ortega y Gasset, Bernard Bolzano, Gemistus Pletho, Pierre Gassendi, and Pierre Bayle.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Jean Baudrillard ranks 23. Before him are Christopher Plummer, Jacques Brel, Peter Higgs, Yayoi Kusama, Irene Papas, and Michael Ende. After him are Frank Gehry, Tigran Petrosian, Max von Sydow, Rudolf Mössbauer, Sándor Kocsis, and James Hong. Among people deceased in 2007, Jean Baudrillard ranks 10. Before him are Kurt Vonnegut, Michelangelo Antonioni, Mohammed Zahir Shah, Kurt Waldheim, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and Ève Curie. After him are Mstislav Rostropovich, Carlo Ponti, Ernst Otto Fischer, Kai Siegbahn, Maurice Béjart, and Marcel Marceau.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean Baudrillard ranks 422 out of 6,770. Before him are Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908), Claude Adrien Helvétius (1715), Hortense de Beauharnais (1783), Émilie du Châtelet (1706), Alfred Kastler (1902), and Jérôme Bonaparte (1784). After him are Louise Bourgeois (1911), Pierre Laval (1883), Francis Poulenc (1899), Fernandel (1903), Girard Desargues (1591), and André Derain (1880).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In France

Among philosophers born in France, Jean Baudrillard ranks 21. Before him are Paul Ricœur (1913), Marquis de Condorcet (1743), Jean Buridan (1295), Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709), Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908), and Claude Adrien Helvétius (1715). After him are Pierre Gassendi (1592), Pierre Bayle (1647), Ernest Renan (1823), Nicolas Malebranche (1638), Étienne Bonnot de Condillac (1714), and Jean-François Lyotard (1924).

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