Abstract

LOPEZ SOTO, Luis Alberto. Destabilization of the principle of equivalence as an intellectual crisis in the thought of Jean Baudrillard. Valenciana [online]. 2018, vol.11, n.21, pp.207-233. ISSN 2007-2538.  https://doi.org/10.15174/rv.v0i21.329.

This article will analyze an aspect of the work of the French sociologist Jean Baudrillard, specifically the notion of equivalence, which serves as a valid dual principle in three disciplines: Linguistics, Economics and Psychoanalysis. This principleis of a two-pronged nature, and is presupposed as a fundamental notion of the modern paradigm; these disciplines are there for ere presented in this work by three fundamental authors of modernity: Ferdinand de Saussure, Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud. The equivalences studied here are the linguistic sign (signified and signifier) in Saussure; the labor theory of value (value in use and value in trade) in Marx, and the identity of the subject (or latent and patent) in Freud. A review is made of the way in which Baudrillard reads these three authors with the aim of associating his body of work with the idea of postmodernity as a crisis of the intellect.

Keywords : Jean Baudrillard; Equivalence; Postmodernity; Sign; Intellectual crisis.

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