Season 4: June "Book Lunch" Featuring Jean Baudrillard's⁠ masterpiece , "America"

Notes on this "Book Lunch" from your host, Mitch Hampton: "For this book lunch I revisit a contemporary classic - Jean Baudrillard's poetic, impressionistic, polemical book , "America" , from the early 80s.It is most interesting to reread the book now as the United States and the world is so very different than then, and yet in many ways, as his text reveals, the same. I place Baudrillard's book in the tradition of French meditative and speculative writing like Camus, De Beauvoir, de Tocqueville, Montaigne, Montesquieu - far different in meaning and intent from the moralistic and prescriptive non-fiction writing that dominates today." **Note on Jean Baudrillard's America: I will be using the first and original edition of the text, most notable for the photography throughout by the great Chris Richardson. #BookLunch #America #JeanBaudrillard #author #France ##philosophy #artsandculture #humanity #podcast