Violence and the Mimetic Unconscious, Volume 2 - The Affective Hypothesis

A propos de l'auteur

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).

Résumé

In volume two of a Janus-faced diagnostic of the cathartic and contagious effects of (new) media violence, Nidesh Lawtoo traces a genealogy of a long-neglected, embodied, relational, and highly mimetic unconscious that, well before the discovery of mirror neurons, posited mirroring reactions as a via regia to a phantom ego.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Nidesh Lawtoo
• Edition: Michigan state university pres
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 01.10.2023
• EAN: 9781611864656
• ISBN: 978-1-61186-465-6
• Pages: 316
• Thèmes: Studies in Violence, Mimesis &; Studies in Violence, Mimesis & Culture
• Catégorie: Littérature spécialisée > Philosophie, religion > Philosophie: général, ouvrages de référence