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Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness' and Contemporary Thought
Revisiting the Horror with Lacoue-Labarthe
E-bok, 2012
2330 kr
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With its innovative narrative structure and its controversial explorations of race, gender and empire, Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness is a landmark of 20th century literature that continues to resonate to this day. This book brings together leading scholars to explore the full range of …
Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness' and Contemporary Thought
Revisiting the Horror with Lacoue-Labarthe
E-bok, 2012
2330 kr
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With its innovative narrative structure and its controversial explorations of race, gender and empire, Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness is a landmark of 20th century literature that continues to resonate to this day. This book brings together leading scholars to explore the full range of …
Phantom of the Ego
Modernism and the Mimetic Unconscious
Häftad, 2013
874 kr
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The Phantom of the Ego is the first comparative study that shows how the modernist account of the unconscious anticipates contemporary discoveries about the importance of mimesis in the formation of subjectivity. Rather than beginning with Sigmund Freud as the father of modernism, Nidesh Lawtoo …
Conrad's Shadow
Catastrophe, Mimesis, Theory
Häftad, 2016
735 kr
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Western thought has often dismissed shadows as fictional, but what if fictions reveal original truths? Drawing on an anti-Platonic tradition in critical theory, Lawtoo adopts ethical, anthropological, and philosophical lenses to offer new readings of Joseph Conrad’s novels and the postcolonial and …
(New) Fascism
Contagion, Community, Myth
Häftad, 2019
580 kr
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Fascism tends to be relegated to a dark chapter of European history, but what if new forms of fascism are currently returning to the forefront of the political scene? In this book, Nidesh Lawtoo furthers his previous diagnostic of crowd behavior, identification, and mimetic contagion to account for …
Violence and the Oedipal Unconscious
vol. 1, The Catharsis Hypothesis
Häftad, 2023
594 kr
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Representations of violence are often said to generate cathartic effects, but what does “catharsis” mean? And what theory of the unconscious made this concept so popular that it reaches from classical antiquity to the digital age? In Violence and the Oedipal Unconscious, Nidesh Lawtoo reframes …
Violence and the Mimetic Unconscious, Volume 2
The Affective Hypothesis
Häftad, 2023
640 kr
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Representations of violence have subliminal contagious effects, but what kind of unconscious captures this imperceptible affective dynamic in the digital age? In volume two of a Janus-faced diagnostic of the cathartic and contagious effects of (new) media violence, Nidesh Lawtoo traces a genealogy …
Homo Mimeticus
A New Theory of Imitation
Häftad, 2022
425 kr
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Imitation is, perhaps more than ever, constitutive of human originality. Many things have changed since the emergence of an original species called Homo sapiens, but in the digital age humans remain mimetic creatures: from the development of consciousness to education, aesthetics to politics, …
Homo Mimeticus II
Re-Turns To Mimesis
Av Nidesh Lawtoo, Marina Garcia-Granero
Häftad, 2024
610 kr
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Second volume in the Homo Mimeticus mini-series, which advances the emerging transdisciplinary field of mimetic studiesAfter 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 …
Homo Mimeticus III
Plasticity, Mimesis and Metamorphosis with Catherine Malabou
Av Nidesh Lawtoo, Willow Verkerk
Häftad, 2025
536 kr
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New interdisciplinary essays on key topics in mimetic studies, including three contributions by internationally renowned philosopher Catherine MalabouThis 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 …
