by Jean Baudrillard · Editorial Anagrama · tapa dura · ISBN 9788433913456
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The Transparency of Evil is an essay by the French philosopher and sociologist Jean Baudrillard, published in 1990. In this book, Baudrillard analyzes the extreme phenomena of contemporary society, such as terrorism, globalization, and technology, arguing that these phenomena have led to a loss of meaning and a radical transparency of evil. The author explores how modern society, in its search for transparency and consensus, paradoxically faces the opacity and irreducibility of evil, which manifests itself in virosity, acceleration, and the overflowing of effects.
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.
