Books by William Pawlett

Shedding light on the relationship between violence and contemporary society, this volume explores the distinctive but little-known theories of violence in the work of Georges Bataille and Jean Baudrillard.

Offers an account of the sociological dimensions of Baudrillard's thought; from his early semiological and Marxist positions to his works on illusion, terrorism and evil. This book assesses his development of sociological themes including nature and trajectory of 'the social', the ambivalence of social values and resistance to the social system.