A review by va87
The Intelligence of Evil or the Lucidity Pact by Chris Turner, Jean Baudrillard

4.0

This, the "closing text" in the "cycle of 'theory-fictions'" beginning with Fatal Strategies, is likely the most significant of Baudrillard's books in his last decade of writing. The Intelligence of Evil finds him fiercely independent, yet indebted to writers who came before him; dauntingly subtle, yet unabashedly straightforward; and unmatched in both his timeliness and untimeliness. While Baudrillard's penultimate reflections on Evil, God, disappearance and becoming are beautiful and touching, he was proudly unrepentant to the end: expect no deathbed conversion nor recompense.
Chris Turner's illuminating introduction also deserves special notice.