The Divine Left: A Chronicle of the Years 1977--1984

An analysis of how Mitterand came to power in France and how political power seduced the French Left and became a simulacrum.

First published in French in 1985, The Divine Left is Jean Baudrillard's chronicle of French political life from 1977 to 1984. It offers the closest thing to political analysis to be found from a thinker who has too often been regarded as apolitical. Gathering texts that originally appeared as newspaper commentary on François Mitterand's rise to pow…