Symbolic exchange and death

When the thinkers of European civilization, one after another, declared the death of God, art, history and morality, reality inevitably and imperceptibly was supplanted by hyperreality. This effect was the first to notice and voiced by Jean Bodriyar, taking as the basis of the position of Freudism and Marxism, he clearly showed the identity and production relations, a scheme of how our inner fear of death builds the capitalist hierarchy of class inequality. By masking this fear, we create more and more symbols that no longer lead us to things, but only to other symbols, even more deeply immersing society in the simulation of reality.
In this book, a cult French philosopher not only means the problems of modern consumption society, but also tries to feel an alternative approach that dates back to archaic forms of “symbolic exchange” with gifts, rituals, games and poetry to interrupt the endless flow of simulations and break out into the present reality.
3rd edition, corrected