Subjects and Simulations (eBook, PDF)

Between Baudrillard and Lacoue-Labarthe
Redaktion: 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 in the twenty-first century. Inspired by the work of Jean Baudrillard, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe and JeanLuc Nancy, sixteen authors study how the real reasserts itself in an age of every more fragmented media, and how art and literature give us access to forms of truth that elude philosophy. How does representation grant us access to the place once occupied by the subject? Is political life possible? Can plural thinking be retrieved? Will metaphor and simulation give us ways of being in an evanescent world? The volume engages discussions of French and Continental philosophy, post-structuralism, deconstruction, simulacra, aesthetics, existentialism, and media theory.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 310
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. November 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216315285
• Artikelnr.: 74843394

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
Chapter3. 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