Books written by Nidesh Lawtoo
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Conrad's Shadow: Catastrophe, Mimesis, Theory
For critics who have recognized that “community” is a key concept in Conrad's ethics and provides a foundation for his account of solidarity, see, for instance, Watt, Conrad in the Nineteenth Century, 3–21; Daphna ErdinastVulcan, ...
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(New) Fascism: Contagion, Community, Myth
In this book, Nidesh Lawtoo furthers his previous diagnostic of crowd behavior, identification, and mimetic contagion to account for the growing shadow cast by authoritarian leaders who rely on new media to take possession of the digital ...
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Homo Mimeticus: A New Theory of Imitation
Caught in this spiraling loop, the mirroring hands, whose realistic three-di- mensionality stuck out from the beginning, feel increasingly animated. Well before the invention of three-dimensional simulations, they already transgress the ...
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Violence and the Mimetic Unconscious, Volume 2: The Affective Hypothesis
... Mimesis , ” in Typography , 248–66 , 260 . 54. Denis Diderot , Paradoxe sur le comédien ( Paris : Flammarion , 1981 ) , 128 ... Movies , and Media : Violence , Desire , and the Sacred , ed . Joel Hodge , Chris Fleming , and Scott Cowdell ...
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Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness' and Contemporary Thought: Revisiting the Horror with Lacoue-Labarthe
This book brings together leading scholars to explore the full range of contemporary philosophical and critical responses to the text.
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The Phantom of the Ego: Modernism and the Mimetic Unconscious
This book traces the psychological, ethical, political, and cultural implications of the realization that the modern ego is born out of the spirit of imitation; it is thus, strictly speaking, not an ego, but what Nietzsche calls, “a ...