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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

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Homo Mimeticus III is a major contribution to contemporary thought. Through elegant argumentation, intellectual range, and remarkable conceptual inventiveness, the volume reanimates and redefines the relation between mimesis and plasticity for an era of radical transformation. It will be indispensable reading for scholars of philosophy, critical theory, and beyond. - Catherine Kellogg, University of Alberta Mimesis and plasticity has been building a thriving career of its own. This volume with an excellent clutch of essays brings the subject of mimetic plasticity, rather plastic mimesis, into a fresh zone of introspection and reflection. Spearheaded by Lawtoo and Verkerk, the essays in this volume are insightful and extraordinary experiences in understanding plasticity and a variety of issues, like epigenesis, materiality, eroticism, semiosis, neuroliterature and others that hold themselves in its seductive spectrum. - Ranjan Ghosh, University of North Bengal

Homo Mimeticus III is a major contribution to contemporary thought. Through elegant argumentation, intellectual range, and remarkable conceptual inventiveness, the volume reanimates and redefines the relation between mimesis and plasticity for an era of radical transformation. It will be indispensable reading for scholars of philosophy, critical theory, and beyond. - Catherine Kellog, University of Alberta Mimesis and plasticity has been building a thriving career of its own. This volume with an excellent clutch of essays brings the subject of mimetic plasticity, rather plastic mimesis, into a fresh zone of introspection and reflection. Spearheaded by Lawtoo and Verkerk, the essays in this volume are insightful and extraordinary experiences in understanding plasticity and a variety of issues, like epigenesis, materiality, eroticism, semiosis, neuroliterature and others that hold themselves in its seductive spectrum. - Ranjan Ghosh, University of North Bengal

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Nidesh Lawtoo is a philosopher and cultural critic, professor of Modern European Literature and Culture at Leiden University. Willow Verkerk is lecturer in Continental Philosophy and Social Philosophy at the University of British Columbia.

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