Parasite : a Philosophical Exploration / edited by Thorsten Botz-Bornstein and Giannis Stamatellos.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Botz-Bornstein, Thorsten, editor.

Stamatellos, Giannis, 1970- editor.

Series:

Value inquiry book series ; Volume 377.

Value Inquiry Book Series ; Volume 377

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Philosophy.

Motion pictures.

Kisaengch'ung (Motion picture).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (221 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, The Netherlands : Koninklijke Brill nv, [2022]

Summary:

Parasite presents the ethico-biological problem of parasitism in a metaphorical and artistic fashion. In this book, philosophers explore the film using sources such as the ancient satirist Lucian’s De Parasito, Nietzsche’s “the vengeance of the weak,” Dostoyevsky’s “Underground,” or Marxism, among others.

Parasite is a philosophically interesting film because it presents the ethico-biological problem of parasitism in a metaphorical and artistic fashion. Michel Serres, in his book called The Parasite, holds that parasites are not in fact useless, but that they establish communications between different spheres and are thus able to transform large-scale organisms. Parasites import coincidences, activate defence systems, and establish new links with the host. In this book, philosophers explore the film from various angles: using the ancient satirist Lucian’s De Parasito , Nietzsche’s concept of “the vengeance of the weak,” Dostoyevsky’s “underground,” Marxism, and many more.

Contents:

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

1 Parasitism beyond Ethics / Thorsten Botz-Bornstein

2 The Paradoxical Universal of Korean Cinema / Steve Choe

3 Parasite from Text to Context An Ethical Stalemate and New Auteurism in Global Cinema / Seung-hoon Jeong

4 From Superfluous to Parasitic Russian Literature, Arendt and Korean Modernity / Daniel Regnier

5 Notes from the (Korean) Underground Being-in-the-world Is Being-a-Parasite / Richard McDonough

6 Mice and Cockroaches Parasite through Nietzsche and Dostoevsky / Paolo Stellino

7 Planning Not to Plan The Fantasy and Failure of Underclass Solidarity in Parasite / Daniel Conway

8 Bong Joon Ho’s Parasite Viewed in the Context of Pasolini’s Theorem and Deleuze’s Filmic Theories / Tony Partridge

9 From Parasites to Monsters The Unfulfilled Promises of Serres’ Parasitism in Bong Joon-ho’s Neoliberal Social Allegories / Hye Seung Chung

10 Parasite: A Predicative or a Substantial Concept? / Vincenzo Lomuscio

11 “A System of Apprehensions” The Art of Parasitism in Lucian’s De Parasito and Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite / Giannis Stamatellos

12 The Parasite Is the Truth of the System / Hyun Kang Kim

13 Parasite and Identity in the “End Times” An Interpretation of Bong Joon-Ho’s Film through the Lens of Slavoj Žižek / Michelle Phillips Buchberger

14 Parasite as a Scaled-Down Disaster Film / Enrico Terrone

15 Symbiosis, Interruption, and Exchange Parasite after Serres’ The Parasite / Michael Weinman and Shai Biderman

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789004521513

9004521518

OCLC:

1344156834

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004521513 DOI