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Author | : Nidesh Lawtoo |
Publisher | : MSU Press |
Total Pages | : 365 |
Release | : 2013-10-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1628950420 |
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The Phantom of the Ego is the first comparative study that shows how the modernist account of the unconscious anticipates contemporary discoveries about the importance of mimesis in the formation of subjectivity. Rather than beginning with Sigmund Freud as the father of modernism, Nidesh Lawtoo starts with Friedrich Nietzsche’s antimetaphysical diagnostic of the ego, his realization that mimetic reflexes—from sympathy to hypnosis, to contagion, to crowd behavior—move the soul, and his insistence that psychology informs philosophical reflection. Through a transdisciplinary, comparative reading of landmark modernist authors like Nietzsche, Joseph Conrad, D. H. Lawrence, and Georges Bataille, Lawtoo shows that, before being a timely empirical discovery, the “mimetic unconscious” emerged from an untimely current in literary and philosophical modernism. 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 phantom of the ego.” The Phantom of the Ego opens up a Nietzschean back door to the unconscious that has mimesis rather than dreams as its via regia, and argues that the modernist account of the “mimetic unconscious” makes our understanding of the psyche new.
Author | : Thomas Metzinger |
Publisher | : ReadHowYouWant.com |
Total Pages | : 442 |
Release | : 2010-05-21 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1458759164 |
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We're used to thinking about the self as an independent entity, something that we either have or are. In The Ego Tunnel, philosopher Thomas Metzinger claims otherwise: No such thing as a self exists. The conscious self is the content of a model created by our brain - an internal image, but one we cannot experience as an image. Everything we experience is ''a virtual self in a virtual reality.'' But if the self is not ''real,'' why and how did it evolve? How does the brain construct it? Do we still have souls, free will, personal autonomy, or moral accountability? In a time when the science of cognition is becoming as controversial as evolution, The Ego Tunnel provides a stunningly original take on the mystery of the mind.
Author | : Nidesh Lawtoo |
Publisher | : MSU Press |
Total Pages | : 391 |
Release | : 2016-09-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1628952768 |
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Western thought has often dismissed shadows as fictional, but what if fictions reveal original truths? Drawing on an anti-Platonic tradition in critical theory, Lawtoo adopts ethical, anthropological, and philosophical lenses to offer new readings of Joseph Conrad’s novels and the postcolonial and cinematic works that respond to his oeuvre. He argues that Conrad’s fascination with doubles urges readers to reflect on the two sides of mimesis: one side is dark and pathological, and involves the escalation of violence, contagious epidemics, and catastrophic storms; the other side is luminous and therapeutic, and promotes communal survival, postcolonial reconciliation, and plastic adaptations to changing environments. Once joined, the two sides reveal Conrad as an author whose Janus-faced fictions are powerfully relevant to our contemporary world of global violence and environmental crisis.
Author | : Nidesh Lawtoo |
Publisher | : MSU Press |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2019-08-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1628953713 |
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Fascism tends to be relegated to a dark chapter of European history, but what if new forms of fascism are currently returning to the forefront of the political scene? 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 age. Donald Trump is considered here as a case study to illustrate Nietzsche’s untimely claim that, one day, “ ‘actors,’ all kinds of actors, will be the real masters.” In the process, Lawtoo joins forces with a genealogy of mimetic theorists—from Plato to Girard, through Nietzsche, Tarde, Le Bon, Freud, Bataille, Lacoue-Labarthe, and Nancy, among others—to show that (new) fascism may not be fully “new,” let alone original; yet it effectively reloads the old problematics of mimesis via new media that have the disquieting power to turn politics itself into a fiction.
Author | : Nidesh Lawtoo |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 660 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Mimesis in literature |
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Author | : Mark Johnston |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 409 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 0691130132 |
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Annotation Johnston presents an argument for a form of immortality that divests the notion of any supernatural elements. The book is packed with illuminating philosophical reflection on the question of what we are, and what it is for us to persist over time.
Author | : Steve Ladd |
Publisher | : Air World |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 2020-09-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1526761254 |
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This behind-the-scenes account of a USAF career is “an absorbing read, written with the classic humor fighter pilots seem to have” (Flight Line Book Review). From Baron von Richthofen to Robin Olds, the mystique of the fighter pilot endures. The skill, cunning, and bravery that characterizes this distinctive band of brothers is well known, but there are other dimensions to those who take to the skies to do battle that have not been given the emphasis they deserve—until now. You don’t have to be an aviation aficionado to enjoy Colonel Steve Ladd’s fascinating personal tale, woven around his twenty-eight-year career as a fighter pilot. This extremely engaging account follows a young man from basic pilot training to senior command through narratives that define a unique ethos. From the United States to Southeast Asia, Europe to the Middle East, the amusing and tongue-in-cheek to the deadly serious and poignant, this is the lifelong journey of a fighter pilot. The anecdotes are absorbing, providing an insight into life as an Air Force pilot, but, in this book, as Colonel Ladd stresses, the focus is not on fireworks or stirring tales of derring-do. Instead, this is an articulate and absorbing account of what life is really like among a rare breed of arrogant, cocky, boisterous, and fun-loving young men who readily transform into steely professionals at the controls of a fighter aircraft. “This book will appeal to a variety of readers with its Vietnam War combat stories and accounts of flying the Warthog in Cold War Europe. Fun, flying, international experiences—you won’t want to put it down.” —Aviation News
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Download Il Fantasma Dell'Io. La Massa E L'inconscio Mimetico: The Phantom of the Ego: Modernism and the Mimetic Unconscious Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Frederick Forsyth |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2000-12-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780312975852 |
Download The Phantom of Manhattan Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A sequel to Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera in which the disfigured Phantom goes to America. He builds the world's greatest opera house, hoping to lure his love, the opera diva who rejected him in Paris. By the author of The Day of the Jackal.
Author | : Pete Bregman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2008-11 |
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ISBN | : 9780977386635 |
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Prior to his infamous life as "The Phantom," the disfigured genius named Erik traveled the globe as a magician and sideshow horror. His unique skills eventually earned him a job as an architect and political assassin for the Shah of Persia. The Trap-Door Maker tells the tale of Erik's origins, actions, and ultimate betrayal! Collected Edition also contains Chapter 1 of Gaston Leroux's, The Phantom of the Opera as bonus feature. This critically-acclaimed graphic novel now includes a stunning Basil Gogos cover.