Jean baudrillard's personal profile

Jean baudrillard (1929-2007), 1929 was born in Reims on July 29th, a famous western philosopher and sociologist. He is often mistaken for a postmodernist, but he is not. He criticized Foucault and other post-modernism and made it clear that he was not a post-modernist.

Baudrillard was born in a traditional French family. His grandfather is a farmer and his parents are civil servants. He was the first person in his family to go to college, and received a doctorate in sociology in Paris.

1966, baudrillard got a chair at the University of Paris X (Nanterre College), but a student movement broke out two years later. At this time, he began to contact the radical Utopia magazine, but politically, he adopted a compromise attitude between radical Marxism and environmental determinism, which deviated from the mainstream attitude of intellectuals at that time.

Baudrillard once recalled: "I entered the university in the 1960s, but it was a detour. In short, as far as my normal career is concerned, I always miss my goal, including that I have never been promoted to a professor. However, this is what I want. This is my own game. I want to say that what I want is a certain degree of freedom. " From this, it serves to show his revolutionary attitude of "anti-system" within the system. Although he tried his best to squeeze into the academic system, he always lived in it and got basic recognition in this "academic community".

1986, Baudrillard resigned from the university and began to concentrate on writing and photography after being awarded a doctorate. In the late 1990s, Baudrillard's photographic works won praises and held photography exhibitions in France, Britain and Italy, thus showing a different lifestyle and attitude from ordinary social thinkers.