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Buch, Englisch, 350 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 468 g

Lawtoo / Verkerk

Homo Mimeticus III

Plasticity, Mimesis and Metamorphosis with Catherine Malabou
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-94-6270-500-5
Verlag: Leuven University Press

Plasticity, Mimesis and Metamorphosis with Catherine Malabou

Buch, Englisch, 350 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 468 g

ISBN: 978-94-6270-500-5
Verlag: Leuven University Press


New interdisciplinary essays on key topics in mimetic studies, including three contributions by internationally renowned philosopher Catherine Malabou

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

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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


Lawtoo, Nidesh
Nidesh Lawtoo is a philosopher and cultural critic, professor of Modern European Literature and Culture at Leiden University.

Verkerk, Willow
Willow Verkerk is lecturer in Continental Philosophy and Social Philosophy at the University of British Columbia.



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