Jean Baudrillard, a French philosopher and social theorist known for his provocative commentaries on consumerism, has died at the age of 77. French philosopher Jean Baudrillard dies.

After Allied liberation, the French were glad of products that brought international notice. Yet they also looked inward, writes the scholar, who teaches… ‘Turning on the Mind: French ...

Claude Levi-Strauss, the French philosopher widely considered the father of modern anthropology because of his then-revolutionary conclusion that so-called primitive societies did not differ ...