Nidesh Lawtoo

Broschiertes Buch

Violence and the Mimetic Unconscious, Volume 2

The Affective Hypothesis

Beschreibung

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.

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).

Produktdetails

• Studies in Violence, Mimesis & Culture
• Verlag: Michigan State University Press
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 152mm x 229mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9781611864656
• ISBN-10: 1611864658
• Artikelnr.: 67739718