Homo Mimeticus III : Plasticity, Mimesis and Metamorphosis with Catherine Malabou

Abstract

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