America

In this, his most accessible and evocative book, France's leading philosopher of postmodernism takes to the freeways in a collection of traveler's tales from the land of hyperreality.

Review: 'Since de Toqueville, French thinkers have been fascinated with America. But when it comes to mysterious paradoxes and lyrical complexity no French intellectual matches Jean Baudrillard in contemplating the New World... [He] has become a sharp-shooting Lone Ranger of the post-Marxist left." -- New York Times "The collection of wild, often hilarious postcards from his trip to America contains some of the year's most orignal and beautiful writing." -- New Statesman and Society " ... occasionally provocative and almost always infuriating ... America is filled with perceptive, almost poetic observations." -- Rolling Stone "A mixture of crazy notions and dead-on insights, America is a valuable (and voluable) picture of what Mr. Baudrillard calls 'the only remaining primitive society' -- ours." -- New York Times Book Review