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Thesis In Jean Baudrillard, polysemic words are conceptual operators: through puns, reversals, and etymological slippages, language itself performs the instability, reversibility, and disappearance that his theory attributes to contemporary reality. Introduction: From Concept to Word Philosophy has traditionally aligned itself with clarity. Its task, at least since the Enlightenment, has been to define concepts, stabilize meanings, and secure distinctions. Against this backdrop, the writing of Jean Baudrillard appears at once disconcerting and elusive. His texts resist definition, slipping between registers, multiplying meanings, and often assuming a tone closer to literature than to systematic philosophy. Yet this resistance is not a failure of rigor; it is the very condition of his thought. A useful point of entry lies in Sigmund Freud’s insight that language exceeds intention. In dreams, slips, and symptoms, words condense multiple meanings, revealing a logic that escapes co...

What is the real one? AI image The Problem of Too Much Reality Philosophy has long treated reality as something elusive, hidden behind appearances, distorted by language, or only partially accessible to thought. Jean Baudrillard reverses this assumption. The difficulty today is not that reality escapes us, but that it is everywhere: continuously produced, displayed, and confirmed. We are surrounded by an excess of information, images, and interpretations that leave little room for doubt or distance. This shift also displaces a central concern of linguistic philosophy. The question is no longer about the relation between language and reality, but whether the distinction between them can still be maintained. In a world where both proliferate without limit, the more pressing issue becomes: how can anything still disappear, remain secret, or resist being absorbed into meaning? From Representation to Saturation Traditional philosophy often assumed a nomenclaturist model , in which w...