by Jean Baudrillard · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432310843
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«La ilusión vital» is the philosophical essay by Jean Baudrillard, published by Siglo XXI de España Editores in paperback (86 pages, in Spanish).
Baudrillard presents cloning as a return to the pathological eternity of replicating cells, to the detriment of human diversity; he sees the millennium change as a «non-event» that reveals the retreat of history; and he denounces the elimination of the real by the virtual, in a world of copies without referents.
Published in 2002, with translation by Alberto Jiménez Rioja. Part of the Teoría collection from Siglo XXI.
For readers of contemporary philosophy interested in Baudrillard's thought on technology, cloning, and virtuality.
Jean Baudrillard 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 best-known works are Forget Foucault (1977), Seduction (1978), Simulacra and Simulation (1981), America (1986), and The Gulf War Did Not Take Place (1991). His work is frequently associated with postmodernism and specifically post-structuralism. Nevertheless, Baudrillard had also opposed post-structuralism, and had distanced himself from postmodernism.
