Subjects and Simulations

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.

• Between Subjects and Simulations—at the Limits of Representation, Hugh J. Silverman and Anne O’ByrnePart One: Re-presenting SubjectivityIntroductionChapter 1. Simulate This!:The Seductive Return of the Real in Baudrillard, Drew HylandChapter 2. The Fiction of the Unconscious: The Use and Abuse of Representation in Freud, Alina ClejChapter3. The Postmodern Subject: Truth and Fiction in Lacoue-Labarthe’s Nietzsche, Hugh J. SilvermanChapter 4. The Subject of the Good: Exhaltation without Representation in Lacoue-Labarthe and Wittig, Stephen David RossPart Two: The Art of RepresentationIntroductionChapter 5. Fiction, Allegory, Irony: The Unveiling of Lacoue-Labarthe, Massimo VerdicchioChapter 6. The Power of the Text: Lacoue-Labarthe, Rorty, and the Literariness of Philosophy, Gary E. AylesworthChapter 7. Edging the Sublime: Baudrillard and the Inaccessible Real, Basil O’Neill 119Chapter 8. In the Wake of Critique: Notes from the Inside Cover of Baudrillard’s Simulacra and Simulation, Thomas P. BrockelmanPart Three: Unrepresentable CommunitiesIntroduction149Chapter 9. Utopia is Here: Revolutionary Communities in Baudrillard and Nancy, Anne O’ByrneChapter 10. Eden Foreclosed: The Subjectivity of Social Identification, Bettina BergoChapter 11. The (Ir)resistible Suffering of Others: Tragedy, Death and the Spectator, Robin May SchottChapter 12. The Subjects of Philosophy: "The We" and Us, James R. WatsonPart Four: Political MediationsIntroductionChapter 13. 9/11 and the Representation of the Unrepresentable: Chora, Aleph and Mediation, Damian Ward HeyChapter 14. Amerika (Kafka)/ America (Baudrillard): Modern Media and Tele-tactility, Katherine RudolphChapter 15. Dressing like Hitler: Reality, Simulation and Hyperreality, Martin WeissChapter 16. Moved by Appearances: Metaphor, Metamorphosis and Irony in the Later Works of Jean Baudrillard, Henk Oosterling