In the Shadow of the Silent Majorities
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 First edition (French) | |
| Author | Jean Baudrillard |
|---|---|
| Original title | À l’ombre des majorités silencieuses ou la fin du social |
| Translator | Paul Foss, John Johnston, Paul Patton |
| Language | French |
| Subject | Philosophy of social science, Criticism of sociology |
| Publisher | Les Cahiers d'Utopie (French) & Semiotext(e) (English) |
Publication date | 1978 |
| Publication place | France |
Published in English | 1983 |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) |
| Pages | 123 pp |
| ISBN | 0936756004 |
| 302.23 | |
| LC Class | HM866 .B38132 1983 |
| Preceded by | L'Effet Beaubourg (1977) |
| Followed by | L'Ange de stuc (1978) |
In the Shadow of the Silent Majorities, Or, the End of the Social (French: À l’ombre des majorités silencieuses ou la fin du social) is a 1978 philosophical treatise by Jean Baudrillard, in which he analyzes the mass society and their relation to meaning. Baudrillard praises the masses for their resistance to the mass media, and lauded 'the social',[1] for their "direct defiance of the political"[2] "victoriously resist[ing] the media by diverting or absorbing all the messages which it produces without responding to them".[2]
The first edition of the book was published in the final issue of the magazine Les Cahiers d'Utopie in 1978.[3][4] It was translated to English by Paul Foss, John Johnston and Paul Patton, and published by the Foreign Agents imprint of Semiotext(e) in 1983.[5] A second edition was published in 2007.[6]