Plasticity and Mimesis: Three Metamorphoses. A Dialogue

Auteurs

  • Catherine Malabou University of California, Irvine
  • Nidesh Lawtoo Leiden University

DOI :

https://doi.org/10.13135/2385-1945/12037

Résumé

The present dialogue took place online on February 23, 2023, in the context of a conference organized by Professor Nidesh Lawtoo and his team at KU Leuven. Revised and expanded for the present written version, this dialogue brings in conversation two of the most relevant thinkers of our time: Catherine Malabou, the author of a widely influential philosophical account that is largely (but not exclusively) based on plasticity, and Nidesh Lawtoo, the proponent of a new and successful field of interdisciplinary inquiry, mimetic studies.

With an editorial note by Alice Iacobone and an intermezzo with Isabelle Dahms & Giulia Rignano.

Traduzione italiana di Alice Iacobone.

Bibliographies de l'auteur

Catherine Malabou, University of California, Irvine

Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and European Languages and Studies at UC Irvine, Professor of Philosophy at CRMEP, Kingston University, and Professor of Philosophy at The European Graduate School. Previously, she was Maître de Conférences at Paris Nanterre University. She earned her PhD from EHESS, supervised by J. Derrida. Beyond her work on plasticity, her recent monographs include Il n’y a pas eu de Révolution (2024), Au voleur! (2022), and Métamorphoses de l’intelligence (2017).

Nidesh Lawtoo, Leiden University

Full Professor of Modern/ Contemporary European Literature and Culture at Leiden University. Previously, he held positions at the University of Lausanne and at Johns Hopkins University, and led an ERCfunded project at KU Leuven (Homo mimeticus, 2017-2022). He is the author and editor of many publications that set the foundations of mimetic studies, such as a diptych on Violence and the Unconscious (2023) and Homo Mimeticus: A New Theory of Imitation (2022).

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Publiée

2025-06-05

Comment citer

Malabou, C., & Lawtoo, N. (2025). Plasticity and Mimesis: Three Metamorphoses. A Dialogue. Philosophy Kitchen - Revue De Philosophie Contemporaine, (22), 211–242. https://doi.org/10.13135/2385-1945/12037

Numéro

No 22 (2025): Plasticity. Lives and Forms of an Aesthetic Concept

Rubrique

IV

Licence

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Ce travail est disponible sous la licence Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International .