Only one of the two major confrontational books on Baudrillard's thought—Christopher Norris's "Uncritical Theory: Postmodernism, Intellectuals and the Gulf War"—seeks to reject his media theory and position on "the real" out of hand. The other—Douglas Kellner's "Jean Baudrillard: From Marxism to Postmodernism and Beyond"—seeks rather to analyse Baudrillard's relation to postmodernism (a concept with which Baudrillard has had a continued, if uneasy and rarely explicit, relationship) and to present a Marxist counter. Regarding the former, William Merrin (discussed above) published more than one denunciation of Norris' position. The latter Baudrillard himself characterised as reductive.