id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-1943 Jean Baudrillard - Wikipedia .html text/html 8283 1104 62 During high school (at the Lycée at Reims), he became aware of pataphysics (via philosophy professor Emmanuel Peillet), which is said to be crucial for understanding Baudrillard's later thought.[6] He became the first of his family to attend university when he moved to Paris to attend the Sorbonne.[7] There he studied German language and literature,[8] which led him to begin teaching the subject at several different lycées, both Parisian and provincial, from 1960 until 1966.[6] While teaching, Baudrillard began to publish reviews of literature and translated the works of such authors as Peter Weiss, Bertolt Brecht, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, and Wilhelm Emil Mühlmann.[9] Baudrillard's published work emerged as part of a generation of French thinkers including: Gilles Deleuze, Jean-François Lyotard, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, and Jacques Lacan who all shared an interest in semiotics, and he is often seen as a part of the post-structuralist philosophical school.[22] In common with many post-structuralists, his arguments consistently draw upon the notion that signification and meaning are both only understandable in terms of how particular words or "signs" interrelate. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-1943.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-1943.txt