5/29/2023 0 Comments Passive Nihilism by Sande Cohen![]() ![]() It is true that working historians have little interest in irony and paradox as intrinsic to social processes – as actual, material, forces – and many historians think Baudrillard’s work offensive, e.g. Michael Roth, now President of Wesleyan University, summed up the historical profession’s judgment on Baudrillard by locating the latter’s theory of history as written from the “alley” of representation, hardly the glorious “mansion” of history with room additions for “real” historians. Because his style of writing freely mixed compact, dense, even oracular statements with incisive analytic deconstructions, his work has not been well received, to say the least, by practitioners of the discipline of historiography. Jean Baudrillard’s writings span many disciplines, including social theory, anthropology, modern art, urbanization and philosophy. We have passed alive into the models… (Baudrillard, 1990:9). ![]()
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