Never would the humanities or psychoanalysis have existed i… - Jean Baudrillard

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Never would the humanities or psychoanalysis have existed if it had been miraculously possible to reduce man to his "rational" behaviors.

Jean Baudrillard

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About Jean Baudrillard

(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.

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