In some astute early scholarship, Santamaria wrote: “one can situate Baudrillard’s work within the long tradition of Gnostic Manicheanism”. 2Įven so, some commentators have dared to approach the forbidden Baudrillard. Levin for instance, reckons: “Baudrillard’s insistence on a formulation based on such archaic metaphysical principles as Evil has met with much moral displeasure, particularly among promoters of radical cultural politics”. In short, his Manichean theme makes many scholars uneasy. Jean Baudrillard has seduced many scholars into print, but most avoid his metaphysics of terrorism and his post-Marxist Gnostic Nihilism. It is the original form – as difficult to conceive as the hypothesis of Evil. This has been done only by heretics: Manicheans and Cathars, both groups envisioning an antagonistic coexistence of two equal and eternal cosmic principles, Good and Evil, at once inseparable and irreconcilable. The most difficult thing is to think Evil, to hypothesize Evil.
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