The End Of History

Baudrillard is a famous French thinker who activated in the modern thought field in the west. He published dozens of monographs and hundreds of papers. He lived in a prominent place among the modern thinkers on account of his "high production" and "high grade". His thinking relatives to many areas, such as consumer society, critique of the political economy, critique of subject theory, critique of reality in ideology, critique of feminism, critique of postmodern media, critique of postmodernism, etc.Baudrillard's philosophy of history is a complex system. He built the concept of simulacra in his history research. The aim about the simulacra theory that Baudrillard put forward is to set a kind of coordinate for postmodern culture by sequence of history. History is not blank space before his construction on sequence of history, but is a period of symbolic exchange. Then, Baudrillard's philosophy of history can be divided into two phases that are symbolic exchange and phases of cultures of accumulation.The main idea in the first chapter is to introduce Baudrillard's ideological profile and theoretical origin of history philosophy.The second chapter is the main part of my article. First, I introduced the symbolic exchange stage of Baudrillard's philosophy of history. The concept of symbolic exchange has a symbolic nature and actives in the field of nonentity. Secondly, I introduced his history philosophy about the sequence of simulacra. In this period, Baudrillard proposed four-sequence theory of imitation by the clue of simulacra. The first sequence means copy. The symbol was liberated for the first time. Meanwhile, it started point to some kind of external reality. The second sequence means production. The difference between symbols and realities gradually disappears. Symbol and reality become completely equivalent. The third sequence means simulacra. The reality disappears gradually in the self-referential of symbol. In this case, there is no reality beyond the code but the excited reality. The world of hyperreality occurs. In the fourth sequence, there is no transcendent thing but codes' proliferation and expansion. From a general point of view, code proliferates and expands incessantly.Finally, I made a brief summary on Jean Baudrillard's philosophy of history.