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Homo Mimeticus II
After the linguistic and the affective turns, the new materialist and the performative turns, the cognitive and the posthuman turns, it is now time to re-turn to the ancient, yet also modern and still contemporary realization that humans are mimetic creatures. In this second installment of the Homo Mimeticus series, international scholars working in philosophy, literary theory, classics, cultural studies, sociology, political theory, and the neurosciences engage creatively with Nidesh Lawtoo’s Homo Mimeticus: A New Theory of Imitation to further the transdisciplinary field of mimetic studies. Agonistic critical engagements with precursors like Plato, Aristotle, Nietzsche, Bataille, Irigaray and Girard, involving contributions by leading international thinkers such as Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen, William E. Connolly, Henry Staten and Vittorio Gallese among many others, reveal the urgency to rethink mimesis beyond realism. From imitation to identification, mimicry to affective contagion, techne to simulation, mirror neurons to biomimicry, homo mimeticus casts a shadow—but also a light—on the present and future, from social media to the Anthropocene.
Moral Neuroeducation for a Democratic and Pluralistic Society
This book brings together a group of top scholars on ethics and moral neuroeducation to cover the specific field of moral learning. Although there are many studies on neural bases of human learning and the application processes in different fields of human activity, such as education, economics or politics, very few of them have delved into the specific field of moral learning. This book brings forward a discursive and cordial ethical concept suitable for the theoretical-practical development of moral neuroeducation, as well as a set of guidelines for the design of an educational model that, based on moral neuroeducation, contributes to the resolution of social problems and the eradication of undesirable patterns and behaviors such as hate speech, corruption, intolerance, nepotism, aporophobia or xenophobia. Furthermore it contains a management approach for the application of this educational model to the different areas of activity involved in social and human development. A must read for students, educators and researchers in the field of moral philosophy, (applied) ethics ethics and any other discipline working with reciprocity (economics, politics, health, etc.).
Aporophobia
Why “aporophobia”—rejection of the poor—is one of the most serious problems facing the world today, and how we can fight it In this revelatory book, acclaimed political philosopher Adela Cortina makes an unprecedented assertion: the biggest problem facing the world today is the rejection of poor people. Because we can’t recognize something we can’t name, she proposes the term “aporophobia” for the pervasive exclusion, stigmatization, and humiliation of the poor, which cuts across xenophobia, racism, antisemitism, and other prejudices. Passionate and powerful, Aporophobia examines where this nearly invisible daily attack on poor people comes from, why it is so harmful, and how...
Violence and the Oedipal Unconscious
Representations of violence are often said to generate cathartic effects, but what does “catharsis” mean? And what theory of the unconscious made this concept so popular that it reaches from classical antiquity to the digital age? In Violence and the Oedipal Unconscious, Nidesh Lawtoo reframes current debates on (new) media violence by tracing the philosophical, aesthetic, and historical vicissitudes of the “catharsis hypothesis” from antiquity to modernity and into the present. Drawing on theorists of mimesis from Aristotle to Nietzsche, Bernays to Breuer, Freud to Girard to Morin, Lawtoo offers a genealogy of the relationship between violence and the unconscious with at least two aims: First, this study gives an account of the birth of the Oedipal unconscious—out of a “cathartic method.” Second, it provides new theoretical foundations to solve a riddle of (new) media violence that may no longer rest on Oedipal solutions. In the process, Lawtoo outlines a new theory of violence, mimesis, and the unconscious that does not have desire as a via regia, but rather, the untimely realization that all affects spread contagiously and thus mimetically.
Nietzsche on Women and the Eternal-Feminine
By re-examining Nietzsche's notion of the eternal-feminine and his views on women and feminism, this volume offers new perspectives on some of his key ideas. It brings together a diverse group of scholars to critically engage with Nietzsche's use of late-19th-century gender stereotypes and the ways in which they served his critique of values, including his use of woman as a trope for truth. Among other subjects, the contributors consider the role of psychology in Nietzsche's thought, his concern with style, self-creation, and advocacy of perfectionism, his views on romantic love and marriage, and his aim of revaluing all values to instigate a distant philosophy of the future. They in...
Colonial Legacies
In Colonial Legacies, Gabriella Nugent examines a generation of contemporary artists born or based in the Congo whose lens-based art attends to the afterlives and mutations of Belgian colonialism in postcolonial Congo. Focusing on three artists and one artist collective, Nugent analyses artworks produced by Sammy Baloji, Michèle Magema, Georges Senga and Kongo Astronauts, each of whom offers a different perspective onto this history gleaned from their own experiences. In their photography and video art, these artists rework existent images and redress archival absences, making visible people and events occluded from dominant narratives. Their artworks are shown to offer a re-reading of the colonial and immediate post-independence past, blurring the lines of historical and speculative knowledge, documentary and fiction. Nugent demonstrates how their practices create a new type of visual record for the future, one that attests to the ramifications of colonialism across time.
Trinidad, deseo y subversión
El deseo de Dios crea y mueve nuestra interioridad atrayendo y centralizando parte de lo que somos. Este libro recoge algunas reflexiones desde una perspectiva poco explorada: el deseo de las mujeres y el deseo pensado por ellas mismas. Sus autoras son teólogas y filósofas que se adentran en lo que el deseo de Dios significó para la vida creyente. Asomarnos al texto misionero de la samaritana, a la potencia mística de las metáforas vividas por Hildegarda de Bingen o a la esperanza luminosa de Etty Hillesum es recorrer parte de la vida trinitaria. Permite repensar las genealogías del conocimiento teológico y ciertas memorias creyentes que fueron dañadas. Recupera para ello exégesis y hermenéuticas textuales feministas, y plantea cuestiones subversivas que aún no han sido respondidas y que abren horizontes creyentes más éticos.
Luces en el camino: filosofía y ciencias sociales en tiempos de desconcierto
La sociedad contemporánea se enfrenta, parca en ropajes, al vendaval provocado por diversas crisis simultáneas: crisis sanitaria, crisis económica, crisis política, crisis educativa, crisis climática, etc. En esta situación, corresponde al mundo de la academia, al ámbito erudito e intelectual el tratar de hacerse valer y demostrar la importancia que tiene para afrontar el desafío del futuro. En la biografía de cualquier persona suele haber alguien que ejerce una influencia benéfica especial.Esos individuos actúan como luces en el camino que orientan en las, a menudo, procelosas situaciones vitales que nos toca vivir. Precisamente eso es lo que nos proponemos en este volumen que, a falta de un término más adecuado, podemos calificar como monumental. Pretendemos ser una luz en el camino del lector que se aproxime a los diversos estudios que se acogen en estas páginas. Aquí se encuentran los resultados de investigaciones muy variopintas que tratan, en la medida de sus posibilidades, de dar respuestas a interrogantes diversos que atañen al quehacer cotidiano, a la forma de entender la vida y la realidad, en definitiva, a la construcción del mundo.
Desafíos de seguridad social en Colombia después de 30 años de la Ley 100
Desde distintos enfoques, en diez capítulos, este libro presenta investigaciones de actualidad sobre el sistema de seguridad social colombiano y expone situaciones de impacto socioeconómico con alcance global, tal como es el caso de la población migrante. Los autores brindan miradas críticas y posiciones filosóficas y pragmáticas frente a la Ley 100 y los problemas relacionados con la seguridad social en sus 30 años de vigencia. Cada uno de los autores examina algunos de los temas más relevantes desde el derecho comparado, la jurisprudencia, el ordenamiento jurídico en general y con estadísticas, para brindar propuestas que aspiran a engrosar la doctrina nacional sobre este tema.
