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Subjects and Simulations : Between Baudrillard and Lacoue-Labarthe.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Blue Ridge Summit : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (311 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780739139073
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Subjects and SimulationsDDC classification:
  • 194
LOC classification:
  • B2421 .S83 2014
Online resources:
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 Philosophy -- 7. 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 Mediations -- Introduction -- 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.
Summary: 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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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 Philosophy -- 7. 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 Mediations -- Introduction -- 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.

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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