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The System Of Objects by Jean Baudrillard is a philosophy book available to read on EtoBox.
What is The System Of Objects about?
__The System of Objects__ is a tour de force—a theoretical letter-in-a-bottle tossed into the ocean in 1968, which brilliantly communicates to us all the live ideas of the day.Pressing Freudian and Saussurean categories into the service of a basically Marxist perspective, __The System of Objects__ offers a cultural critique of the commodity in consumer society. Baudrillard classifies the everyday objects of the “new technical order” as functional, nonfunctional and metafunctional. He contrasts “modern” and “traditional” functional objects, subjecting home furnishing and interior design to a celebrated semiological analysis. His treatment of nonfunctional or “marginal” objects focuses on antiques and the psychology of collecting, while the metafunctional category extends to the useless, the aberrant and even the “schizofunctional.” Finally, Baudrillard deals at length with the implications of credit and advertising for the commodification of everyday life.__The System of Objects__ is a tour de force of the materialist semiotics of the early Baudrillard, who emerges in retrospect as something of a lightning rod for all the live ideas of the day: Bataille’s political economy of “expen
Who reads The System Of Objects?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Jean Baudrillard
- Publisher
- Verso Books
- Published
- 1996
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781844670536
- Category
- philosophy
- Subjects
- Economics, Sociology, History
- Rating
- 3.99 / 5 (824 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13