Mimesis and Alterity: A Particular History of the Senses

by Michael Taussig

Book Overview

In this ambitious and accomplished work, Taussig explores the complex and interwoven concepts of mimesis, the practice of imitation, and alterity, the opposition of Self and Other. The book moves from the nineteenth-century invention of mimetically capacious machines, such as the camera, to the fable of colonial 'first contact' and the alleged mimetic power of 'primitives'. Twenty years after the original publication, Taussig revisits the work...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138242985
• ISBN13: 9781138242982
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"