Brilliant Jean Baudrillard Quotations : 180 Famous Quotes and Sayings

Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007) was a French sociologist and cultural critic, associated with postmodernism. An authority of postmodernism and post-structuralism, Baudrillard was best known as a critic of contemporary culture.


Born in Reims, Baudrillard trained as a Germanist and translated German literary works, including the works of Bertolt Brecht and Peter Weiss. Baudrillard then turned to sociology and served as a sociology professor at Nanterre and University of Paris IX for many decades.

Baudrillard became renowned for his analyses of the modern society, including the developments of the consumer society, media and technology, cyberspace and the information society, and biotechnology. His polemical works include Oublier Foucault (1977; Forget Foucault, 1989) and La Guerre du Golfe n'a pas eu lieu (1991; The Gulf War Did Not Take Place, 1995,) a reflection on how listeners and viewers, influenced by the media, are trapped in a maelstrom of stories, scripts, paradigms, and icons, which in turn determines how the media presents events.