Subjects and Simulations

Between Baudrillard and Lacoue-Labarthe
Herausgeber: O'Byrne, Anne; Silverman, Hugh J.

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Produktbeschreibung

Subjects and Simulations presents essays focused on suffering and sublimity, representation and subjectivity, and the relation of truth and appearance through engagement with the legacies of Jean Baudrillard and Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. November 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 659g
• ISBN-13: 9780739139059
• ISBN-10: 0739139053
• Artikelnr.: 41377434

Autorenporträt

Anne O'Byrne is associate professor of philosophy at Stony Brook University. Hugh J. Silverman was professor of philosophy and comparative literary and cultural studies at Stony Brook University. He was also executive director of the International Association for Philosophy and Literature (IAPL) and co-director of the International Philosophical Seminar.

Inhaltsangabe

Between Subjects and Simulations-at the Limits of Representation, Hugh J.
Silverman and Anne O'Byrne Part One: Re-presenting Subjectivity
Introduction Chapter 1. Simulate This!:The Seductive Return of the Real in
Baudrillard, Drew Hyland Chapter 2. The Fiction of the Unconscious: The Use
and Abuse of Representation in Freud, Alina Clej Chapter 3. The Postmodern
Subject: Truth and Fiction in Lacoue-Labarthe's Nietzsche, Hugh J.
Silverman Chapter 4. The Subject of the Good: Exhaltation without
Representation in Lacoue-Labarthe and Wittig, Stephen David Ross Part Two:
The Art of Representation Introduction Chapter 5. Fiction, Allegory, Irony:
The Unveiling of Lacoue-Labarthe, Massimo Verdicchio Chapter 6. The Power
of the Text: Lacoue-Labarthe, Rorty, and the Literariness of Philosophy,
Gary E. Aylesworth Chapter 7. Edging the Sublime: Baudrillard and the
Inaccessible Real, Basil O'Neill 119 Chapter 8. In the Wake of Critique:
Notes from the Inside Cover of Baudrillard's Simulacra and Simulation,
Thomas P. Brockelman Part Three: Unrepresentable Communities
Introduction149 Chapter 9. Utopia is Here: Revolutionary Communities in
Baudrillard and Nancy, Anne O'Byrne Chapter 10. Eden Foreclosed: The
Subjectivity of Social Identification, Bettina Bergo Chapter 11. The
(Ir)resistible Suffering of Others: Tragedy, Death and the Spectator, Robin
May Schott Chapter 12. The Subjects of Philosophy: "The We" and Us, James
R. Watson Part Four: Political Mediations Introduction Chapter 13. 9/11 and
the Representation of the Unrepresentable: Chora, Aleph and Mediation,
Damian Ward Hey Chapter 14. Amerika (Kafka)/ America (Baudrillard): Modern
Media and Tele-tactility, Katherine Rudolph Chapter 15. Dressing like
Hitler: Reality, Simulation and Hyperreality, Martin Weiss Chapter 16.
Moved by Appearances: Metaphor, Metamorphosis and Irony in the Later Works
of Jean Baudrillard, Henk Oosterling