The renowned postmodernist philosophers tour-de-force contemplation of sex, technology, politics and disease in Western culture after the revolutionary orgy of the 1960s.About the Author:Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007) began teaching sociology at the Universit de Paris-X in 1966. He retired from academia in 1987 to write books and travel until his death in 2007. His many works include Simulations and Simulacra, America, The Perfect Crime, The System of Objects, Passwords, The Transparency of Evil, The Spirit of Terrorism, and Fragments, among others.