THE TRANSFORMATION OF REALITY IN THE CONCEPT OF JEAN BAUDRILLARD

• Published in: St. Petersburg State Polytechnical University Journal. Humanities and Social Sciences no. 1
• Main Author: Serkova, Vera A
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English; Russian
• Published: Saint Petersburg Peter the Great St. Petersburg State Polytechnical University 01.01.2017
• ISSN: 2304-9758
• DOI: 10.18721/JHSS.8111

The article analyzes the interpretation of the meaning of reality in the philosophy of Jean Baudrillard. Since the early 70-ies of XX century in his works formed the original system of understanding reality in terms of "simulacrum" and "hyperreality", is the basis of criticism of postmodern culture, Baudrillard. The concept of "simulacrum", taken from the dictionary of Greek Stoics, is a correlate of reality as the characteristic of no authentication, substitute, substitution I. lack of reality of her copies. "Hyper", as a form of bodily expansion, means "excess" of reality. Terminology helps Baudrillard to Express the principle of "realized nothingness," and is a form of criticism of civilization reduced simplified models of anthropology. For example, his later works of "America" shows how these concepts of concrete material describing travel Baudrillard in the New world. Philosophical perspectives have served in this work is the key to the description of particular phenomena, thus "real", which aims to exhaust the descriptive J. Baudrillard.