The Phantom of the Ego - Modernism and the Mimetic Unconscious

Informationen zum Autor Nidesh Lawtoo is professor of Modern/Contemporary European Literature and Culture at Leiden University, Netherlands. He previously led the ERC project Homo Mimeticus: Theory and Criticism, and he is the author of several books inaugurating a new theory of mimesis at the intersection of philosophy, literature, and politics, including The Phantom of the Ego (2013), Conrad's Shadow (2016), (New)Fascism (2019), and Violence and the Oedipal Unconscious (2023). Klappentext Through a close reading of landmark modernist authors like Friedrich Nietzsche, Joseph Conrad, D. H. Lawrence, and Georges Bataille, read in the company of a panoply of theorists in the human sciences, Lawtoo shows that the mimetic unconscious traverses a Nietzschean current in literary and philosophical modernism.

Product details

• Authors: Nidesh Lawtoo
• Publisher: External catalogues_US
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2013
• EAN: 9781611860962
• ISBN: 978-1-61186-096-2
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 230 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Studies in Violence, Mimesis,; Studies in Violence, Mimesis,; Studies in Violence, Mimesis &
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day