The Baudrillard Consumer Alienation Thought

Jean Baudrillard,a French scholar,is a famous thinker who focuses on consumption culture.The characteristic of his cultural theory is that he gets a close attention to relationship between culture and symbols, and rethinks several academic issues in the world.His theory represents the latest theoretical vision of contemporary cultural studies and research directions.This thesis analyzes his theory of consumption society and explains his theory of symbolic consumption systematically,so that it can be a worthy reference for our understanding and dealing with the practical problem.The introduction of the dissertation describes the significance of this topic and the current course of domestic studies of Baudrillard, the study methodology and overall contents.The article mainly include three parts:The first Part:Introduced the back ground of the formation of Baudrillard's thoughts of Symbol consumption.Focusing on the four stages of the development all over his life after a brief introduction of Baudrillard:The impact of the times background and the various trends of thought decide Baudrillard's life with much own works and the academic direction that distinctive interdisciplinary characteristics:As the times and writing rich,with distinct characteristics of the interdisciplinary,many scholars such as Saussure,Roland Barthes,Henri Lefebvre provide rich thoughts resources to his.The second part:Mainly discussed the contents of the Baudrillard's thoughts of Symbol consumption.In the first,formulated the formation of the Baudrillard's thoughts of consumption basing on reading his works systematic;discussed his theories of Objects-Symbol,consumer society, Symbol logic,etc,and then straightening out the context of the Baudrillard's thoughts of Symbol consumption.In the second,exposing that symbols rigged consumer society and expressing the criticale core of the Baudrillard's thoughts of Symbol consumption.In the third part:Analyze on the Baudrillard's thoughts of Sytnbol consumption. First through the comparing and studying the relationship between Baudrillard and Western Marxism's consumer critical thoughts,to know clearly the appearance of the Baudrillard's thoughts of Symbol consumption. Second following the apocalyptical significance of the Baudrillard's thoughts of Symbol consumption,the Symbol value and Sylnol consumption which advanced by Baudrillard expanded the new vision of max'criticism to a certain extent,added new resources of ideology for the Marxist thoughts.