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
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.
In this important new book, the late Hugh J. Silverman and Anne
O'Byrne have brought together insightful and engaging essays on two
figures now often neglected: Lacoue Labarthe and Baudrillard. The
excellent set of writers in this volume make important claims
against this neglect while engaging important topics in recent
Continental philosophy. A highly recommended read.
*Peter Gratton, Memorial University of Newfoundland*
In this remarkable, interdisciplinary collection, a group of
prominent scholars rethink the converging and diverging legacies of
Baudrillard and Lacoue-Labarthe in the aftermath of their deaths in
2007. By pushing the boundaries of philosophy, psychoanalysis,
aesthetics, politics and media theory, the essays probe the
recalcitrance of the real and the remainders of subjectivity in the
age of the ever-growing intensity and the new forms of the
seduction of simulacra. With elegant and comprehensive
introductions written by the editors, Anne O’Byrne and Hugh J.
Silverman, Subjects and Simulations is an indispensable reading for
anyone interested in the rapidly changing status of 'reality,'
'fiction,' and subjectivity, as well as in the political and
ethical challenges brought about by these changes.
*Ewa Plonowska Ziarek, SUNY Buffalo*
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