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Subjects and simulations : between Baudrillard and Lacoue-Labarthe / edited by Anne O'Byrne and Hugh J. Silverman.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Philosophy, French--20th century.
- Philosophy, French.
- Philosophy, French--21st century.
- Baudrillard, Jean, 1929-2007.
- Baudrillard, Jean.
- Lacoue-Labarthe, Philippe.
- Nancy, Jean-Luc.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (311 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, [Maryland] : Lexington Books, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- <span><span style=""font-style:italic;"">Subjects and Simulations</span><span> 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. </span></span>
- Contents:
- Subjects And Simulations; Contents; Abbreviations; General Introduction: Between Subjects and Simulations-at the Limits of Representation; PART ONE: Representing Subjectivity; Introduction; 1. Simulate This!: The Seductive Return of the Real in Baudrillard; 2. The Fiction of the Unconscious: The Use and Abuse of Representation in Freud; 3. The Postmodern Subject: Truth and Fiction in Lacoue-Labarthe's Nietzsche; 4. The Subject of the Good: Exhaltation without Representation; PART TWO: The Art of Representation; Introduction; 5. Fiction, Allegory, Irony: The Unveiling of Lacoue-Labarthe
- 6. The Power of the Text: Lacoue-Labarthe, Rorty, and the Literariness of Philosophy7. Edging the Sublime: Baudrillard and the Inaccessible Real; 8. In the Wake of Critique: Notes from the Inside Cover of Baudrillard's Simulacra and Simulation; PART THREE: Unrepresentable Communities; Introduction; 9. Utopia is Here: Revolutionary Communities in Baudrillard and Nancy; 10. Eden Foreclosed: Lacoue-Labarthe and Nancy on Dreaming and Identification; 11. The (Ir)resistible Suffering of Others: Tragedy, Death, and the Spectator; 12. The Subjects of Philosophy: "The We" and us
- PART FOUR: Political MediationsIntroduction; 13. 9/11 and the Representation of the Unrepresentable: Chora, Aleph, and Media/tion; 14. Amerika (Kafka)/ America (Baudrillard): Modern Media and Tele-tactility; 15. Dressing Like Hitler: Reality, Simulation, and Hyperreality; 16. Moved by Appearances: Metaphor, Metamorphosis, and Irony; Notes; Bibliography; Index of Names; Index of Topics; Contributors
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-7391-3907-X
- OCLC:
- 896794343
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