Subjects and simulations : between Baudrillard and Lacoue-Labarthe / edited by Anne O'Byrne and Hugh J. Silverman.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed December 23, 2014).

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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

<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>

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