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Baudrillard and Heidegger: Between Two Deaths

Baudrillard and Heidegger: Between Two Deaths In this article, I compare the ways in which Baudrillard and Heidegger seek to bring attention to the importance of death for our personal existential situation which has now become repressed in conceptions of existence and society. Heidegger critiques public conceptions of death that serve to cover up its importance. Less well known is that, somewhat in parallel fashion, Baudrillard charts a ‘genealogy’ of the ‘extradition’ of the dead from the centre of the social and he claims that we live currently in a death denying society. This reduces the meaning of our own impending deaths. However, unlike Heidegger, Baudrillard’s ‘genealogical’ critique of the exclusion of death in modern society is not a one-way dismissal because he proposes an alternative social role for death in the form of ‘primitive symbolic exchange’. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Theory Culture & Society SAGE

Baudrillard and Heidegger: Between Two Deaths

Theory Culture & Society , Volume 39 (6): 18 – Nov 1, 2022

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SAGE
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© The Author(s) 2022
ISSN
0263-2764
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1460-3616
DOI
10.1177/02632764211070279
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Abstract

In this article, I compare the ways in which Baudrillard and Heidegger seek to bring attention to the importance of death for our personal existential situation which has now become repressed in conceptions of existence and society. Heidegger critiques public conceptions of death that serve to cover up its importance. Less well known is that, somewhat in parallel fashion, Baudrillard charts a ‘genealogy’ of the ‘extradition’ of the dead from the centre of the social and he claims that we live currently in a death denying society. This reduces the meaning of our own impending deaths. However, unlike Heidegger, Baudrillard’s ‘genealogical’ critique of the exclusion of death in modern society is not a one-way dismissal because he proposes an alternative social role for death in the form of ‘primitive symbolic exchange’.

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Theory Culture & SocietySAGE

Published: Nov 1, 2022

Keywords: Baudrillard; death; deviance; discrimination; Heidegger; mortality; values

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