Anne O'Byrne
Biographic Data
| ID | 4532741 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anne O'Byrne |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anne |
| FAMILY NAME | O'Byrne |
| SIGNATURE | BYRNE A O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stony Brook University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Subjects and Simulations
Subjects and Simulations presents essays focused on suffering and sublimity, representation and subjectivity, and the relation of truth and appearance in the twenty-first century. Inspired by the work of Jean Baudrillard, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe and JeanLuc Nancy, sixteen authors study how the real reasserts itself in an age of every more fragmented media, and how art and literature give us access to forms of truth that elude philosophy. How doe…
Making Italian America
Exploring Italian American consumers and the U.S. consumption of Italianness, Making Italian America makes a compelling case for taste as a leading determinant of ethnic identity. Discussing in fresh ways topics as diverse as immigrant women’s fashion, critiques of consumerism in Italian immigrant radicalism, the Cold-War politics of consumption across the Atlantic, the Italian American influence in early rock ‘n’ roll, ethnic tourism in Little I…
Making Italian America
Communitasand the Problem of Women
From its earliest beginnings, political thought has grappled with the problem of those who both do and do not belong to the city, those who cannot be exactly included or excluded, that is to say, with the problem of difference. Most often this emerges first as the problem of what to do with women. Communitas is an intense engagement with central figures in the history of political thought – Augustine, Hobbes, Rousseau – but also a remarkably effi…
Learning a Strange Native Language
The colonial practice of destroying native cultures and supressing native languages is already familiar; less thoroughly investigated is the set of practices adopted by newly independent (or simply new) nations in an effort to re-establish (or simply establish) a cultural and national identity, particularly insofar as that involves attempting to revive (or invent) a dead or moribund language. Here I bring Derrida's work to bear on these issues th…
Heidegger and Practical Philosophy
Being Singular Plural (Meridian)
Communitasand the Problem of Women
From its earliest beginnings, political thought has grappled with the problem of those who both do and do not belong to the city, those who cannot be exactly included or excluded, that is to say, with the problem of difference. Most often this emerges first as the problem of what to do with women. Communitas is an intense engagement with central figures in the history of political thought – Augustine, Hobbes, Rousseau – but also a remarkably effi…
Being Singular Plural (Meridian)
Heidegger and Practical Philosophy
Learning a Strange Native Language
The colonial practice of destroying native cultures and supressing native languages is already familiar; less thoroughly investigated is the set of practices adopted by newly independent (or simply new) nations in an effort to re-establish (or simply establish) a cultural and national identity, particularly insofar as that involves attempting to revive (or invent) a dead or moribund language. Here I bring Derrida's work to bear on these issues th…
Communitasand the Problem of Women
From its earliest beginnings, political thought has grappled with the problem of those who both do and do not belong to the city, those who cannot be exactly included or excluded, that is to say, with the problem of difference. Most often this emerges first as the problem of what to do with women. Communitas is an intense engagement with central figures in the history of political thought – Augustine, Hobbes, Rousseau – but also a remarkably effi…
Subjects and Simulations
Subjects and Simulations presents essays focused on suffering and sublimity, representation and subjectivity, and the relation of truth and appearance in the twenty-first century. Inspired by the work of Jean Baudrillard, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe and JeanLuc Nancy, sixteen authors study how the real reasserts itself in an age of every more fragmented media, and how art and literature give us access to forms of truth that elude philosophy. How doe…
Making Italian America
Exploring Italian American consumers and the U.S. consumption of Italianness, Making Italian America makes a compelling case for taste as a leading determinant of ethnic identity. Discussing in fresh ways topics as diverse as immigrant women’s fashion, critiques of consumerism in Italian immigrant radicalism, the Cold-War politics of consumption across the Atlantic, the Italian American influence in early rock ‘n’ roll, ethnic tourism in Little I…
Making Italian America
Political science (5 works) · Politics (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · History (2 works) · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society (2 works) · Italians (2 works) · modern (2 works)