COLLAPSE OF THE WESTERN CIVILIZATION IN THE EXPERT JUDGMENTS OF JEAN BODRILLAR: HISTORICO-PHILOSOPHICAL ANALYSIS

The main thesis characterizing Baudrillard’s creativity comes down to the fact that the western civilization throughout last century made a number of decisive steps in order to reach the highest degree of perfection and to be exempted from factors which could prevent it. According to Baudrillard, for this purpose the “system” begins to push out poverty, diseases, death, labeling all those things which reveal the harsh realities of life as inappropriate and unacceptable. The initial reality more and more recedes facing “hyper-reality”, and the western civilization becomes “hyper-civilization”. There is a substitution of “natural” reality by more attractive forms of reality; the initial sense of things disappears under the pressure of colorable models. With the bourgeoisie eminence as the dominating class, the era of expertocracy and simulacra begins.

history of the Western philosophy, Jean Baudrillard’s philosophy, anthropological crisis, expertocracy, consumer society