{"product_id":"the-divine-left-jean-baudrillard-9781584351290","title":"The Divine Left: A Chronicle of the Years 1977-1984","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn analysis of how Mitterand came to power in France and how political power seduced the French Left and became a simulacrum.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst published in French in 1985, \u003ci\u003eThe Divine Left\u003c\/i\u003e is Jean Baudrillard's chronicle of French political life from 1977 to 1984. It offers the closest thing to political analysis to be found from a thinker who has too often been regarded as apolitical. Gathering texts that originally appeared as newspaper commentary on François Mitterand's rise to power as France's first Socialist president and the Socialist Party's fraught alliance with the French Communist Party, The Divine Left in essence presents Baudrillard's theory of the simulacrum as it operates in the political sphere.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn France, the Left, and even the ultra-Left, had been seduced by power. This scenario--dissected by Baudrillard with deadpan humor and an almost chilling nonchalance--produced a Socialist Party that devoted itself to rallying the market economy and introducing neoliberalism, and replaced an intellectual class with the media stars and hyper-professionals of the spectacle. Starting from the elections of 1977, Baudrillard analyzes--in \"real time,\" as it were--how the Left's taking of power had in fact been an enaction of not just its own death throes, but those of power itself. \u003ci\u003eThe Divine Left \u003c\/i\u003eoutlines a simulation of politics that offers discomfiting parallels to our political world today, a trajectory that has only grown more apparent in recent years: the desire and intention to fail.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jean Baudrillard\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1584351292\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781584351290\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Semiotext(e)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/01\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 152\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.53lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.07w x 0.46d","brand":"Jean Baudrillard","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46962646974719,"sku":"9781584351290","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4a053a90-4184-448e-b3ed-c0616971339f.jpg?v=1750652097","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-divine-left-jean-baudrillard-9781584351290","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}