Jean Baudrillard
This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (July 2014) Jean Baudrillard Jean Baudrillard in 2006 at European Graduate School Born (1929-07-27)27 July 1929 Reims, France Died 6 March 2007(2007-03-06) (aged 77) Paris, France Era 20th- / 21st-century philosophy Region Western Philosophy School Western Marxism · Post-Marxism · Post-Structuralism Main interests Mass Media · Postmodernity Notable ideas Hyperreality · Sign value · Simulacra Influences Marx · Nietzsche · Freud · Wiener · Mauss · Lévi-Strauss · Lefebvre · Barthes · Bataille · Debord · Dick · Borges · McLuhan · Foucault · Influenced Braschi · Pelevin · Vizenor · Žižek · Bryan Reynolds · The Wachowskis · Benoist · Zerzan Jean Baudrillard (/ˌboʊdriːˈɑr/; French: [ʒɑ bodʁijaʁ]; 27 July 1929 – 6 March 2007) was a French sociologist, philosopher, cultural theorist, political commentator, and photographer. His work is frequently associated with postmodernism and specifically post-structuralism.