Buch, Englisch, 384 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 535 g
Re-Turns to Mimesis
Buch, Englisch, 384 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 535 g
ISBN: 978-94-6270-441-1
Verlag: Leuven University Press
Second volume in the Homo Mimeticus mini-series, which advances the emerging transdisciplinary field of mimetic studies
After the linguistic and the affective turns, the new materialist and the performative turns, the cognitive and the posthuman turns, it is now time to re-turn to the ancient, yet also modern and still contemporary realization that humans are mimetic creatures. In this second installment of the Homo Mimeticus series, international scholars working in philosophy, literary theory, classics, cultural studies, sociology, political theory, and the neurosciences engage creatively with Nidesh Lawtoo's Homo Mimeticus: A New Theory of Imitation to further the transdisciplinary field of mimetic studies.
Agonistic critical engagements with precursors like Plato, Aristotle, Nietzsche, Bataille, Irigaray and Girard, involving contributions by leading international thinkers such as Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen, William E. Connolly, Henry Staten and Vittorio Gallese among many others, reveal the urgency to rethink mimesis beyond realism. From imitation to identification, mimicry to affective contagion, techne to simulation, mirror neurons to biomimicry, homo mimeticus casts a shadow—but also a light—on the present and future, from social media to the Anthropocene.
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Fachgebiete
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
- Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
- Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik
Weitere Infos & Material
Introduction: Mapping Mimetic Studies
Nidesh Lawtoo and Marina Garcia-Granero
Prelude: The Discus and the Bow: Homer, Machiavelli, and the Grandissimi Esempli
Nidesh Lawtoo
PART 1 — RE-FRAMINGS OF CLASSICAL MIMESIS
Chapter 1: Plato on Facebook
Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen
Chapter 2: Techne vs. Mimesis in Plato’s Republic: What Socrates Really Says Against Homer
Henry Staten
Chapter 3: Coercion and Mimesis in Plato: Compelling Someone to Change their Nature
Carlos Carvalhar
Chapter 4: Mimetic Resistance
Teresa Casas Hernández
Chapter 5: Behind Plato’s Shadows and Today’s Media Monsters
Mark Pizzato
PART 2 — THEORETICAL RE-TURNS TO HOMO MIMETICUS
Chapter 6: Nietzsche’s Nihilism and Mimetic Studies
Marina Garcia-Granero
Chapter 7: Essential Violence and René Girard’s Mimetic Theory
William A. Johnsen
Chapter 8: Bataille on Mimetic Heterology
Nidesh Lawtoo
Chapter 9: A New Logic of Pathos: The Anti-Oedipal Unconscious in Hysterical Mimesis
María del Carmen Molina Barea
Chapter 10: Exhibition/Exposition: Irigaray and Lacoue- Labarthe on the Theaters of Mimesis
Niki Hadikoesoemo
PART 3 — NEW MIMETIC STUDIES FROM AESTHETICS TO BIOMIMICRY
Chapter 11: Negative Empathy in Fiction: Mimesis, Contagion, Catharsis
Carmen Bonasera
Chapter 12: Fernando Pessoa and the ([P]Re)Birth of Homo Mimeticus
Kieran Keohane and Carmen Kuhling
Chapter 13: Literature, Pedagogy, and the Power of Mimesis: On Teaching Maylis de Kerangal’s The Heart
Evelyne Ender
Chapter 14: The Biomimicry Revolution: Contributions to Mimetic Studies
Henry Dicks
Chapter 15: Arks at Sea and Arcs of Time
William E. Connolly
Coda. Beyond Brain and Body: A Dialogue with Vittorio Gallese
Vittorio Gallese and Nidesh Lawtoo
Notes on Contributors
