Destabilization of the principle of equivalence as an intellectual crisis in the thought of Jean Baudrillard

Authors

  • Luis Alberto López Soto Universidad de Sonora

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15174/rv.v0i21.329

Abstract

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 principle is of a two-pronged nature, and is presupposed as a fundamental notion of the modern paradigm; these disciplines are therefore represented 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.

Author Biography

Luis Alberto López Soto, Universidad de Sonora

Licenciado en Literaturas Hispánicas, maestro e Literatura Hispanoamericana, doctorante en Humanidades. Profesor del Departamento de Letras y Lingüística de la Universidad de Sonora.

Líneas de investigación: Postmodernidad, semiótica, filosofía.

Últimas dos publicaciones:

  1. “Entre el documento y el símbolo: 'Nos han dado la tierra' de Juan Rulfo”, 2013, en Proemio, 9, 53-64.
  2. “Ritmo y sentido en Piedra de sol de Octavio Paz” Actas del XXXVIII Congreso del Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana. Ed. Enrique Cortez y Gwen Kirkpatrick. http://www.iiligeorgetown2010.com/2/pdf/Lopez-Soto.pdf

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2018-01-02

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López Soto, L. A. (2018). Destabilization of the principle of equivalence as an intellectual crisis in the thought of Jean Baudrillard. Valenciana, (21), 207–234. https://doi.org/10.15174/rv.v0i21.329

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No. 21 (2018): Núm. 21 enero-junio 2018

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