Homo Mimeticus III
Leuven University Press (Verlag)
9789462705005 (ISBN)
This is the third volume of a trilogy on Homo Mimeticus, yet in no way does it seek to bring mimetic studies to an end. On the contrary, the ambition of this book is to further the mimetic turn via a new beginning. In collaboration with the French philosopher Catherine Malabou, international contributors argue that plasticity—understood in its double capacity to receive form and to give form—plays a transformative role in the many lives of homo mimeticus qua homo plasticus. Ranging from philosophy to literature, sociology to semiology, the plastic arts to neurobiology, and addressing subjects as diverse as epigenetic mimesis and neuroliterature, plastic figures and the mimetic subconscious, Homo Mimeticus III shows that both new materialisms and mimetic studies are central to affirming plastic metamorphoses in the twenty-first century.
In collaboration with Catherine Malabou
Nidesh Lawtoo is a philosopher and cultural critic, professor of Modern European Literature and Culture at Leiden University. Willow Verkerk is lecturer in Continental Philosophy and Social Philosophy at the University of British Columbia.
Introduction: Morphing Mimetic Studies
Nidesh Lawtoo and Willow Verkerk
Prologue: The Four Metamorphoses of Plasticity: Proteus to Figura, Self-Care to the Overhuman
Nidesh Lawtoo
PART I — GENEALOGIES OF MIMETIC PLASTICITY
Chapter 1: Epigenetic Mimesis: Natural Brains and Synaptic Chips
Catherine Malabou
Chapter 2: Plasticity, Mimesis, Transformativity: A Genealogy of Theories of Change
Tom Boland
Chapter 3: Material Mimetism: On Plastics, Plasticity and Mimesis
Alice Iacobone
Chapter 4: Negative Plasticity and the Indifference of the Body
Kristian Schaeferling
PART II — PLASTIC ENCOUNTERS AND MIMETIC STUDIES
Chapter 5: Benjamin’s Great Criminal, a Plastic Mime
Gabriel Wartinger
Chapter 6: To Double Mimesis Bound: Mortal Plasticity between Malabou and Lacoue-Labarthe
Alex Obrigewitsch
Chapter 7: Eroticism, Gender and the Possibility For Transformation: With and Beyond Merleau-Ponty
Ida Djursaa
Chapter 8: Mimesis, Resonance and the Subject: A Critical Comparison
Mathijs Peters
PART III — FROM NEUROLITERATURE TO THE MIMETIC SUBCONSCIOUS
Chapter 9: Semiosis and Mimesis
Sergey Zenkin
Chapter 10: Neuroliterature and the Example
Tyler M. Williams
Chapter 11: Proust, Realism and the Plasticity of Natural Signs
Ian James
Chapter 12: Conflicting Subliminalities: The Other Ancestors of Mimesis
Catherine Malabou
Coda: The Three Metamorphoses of Mimesis: Thinking with Catherine Malabou
Catherine Malabou and Nidesh Lawtoo
Notes on Contributors
| Erscheinungsdatum | 06.11.2025 |
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| Zusatzinfo | Not illustrated |
| Verlagsort | Leuven |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 233 mm |
| Gewicht | 454 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie | |
| ISBN-13 | 9789462705005 / 9789462705005 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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