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

• Superior document: Value Inquiry Book Series ; 377
• TeilnehmendeR: Stamatellos, Giannis,; Botz-Bornstein, Thorsten,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Value Inquiry Book Series ; 377.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (221 pages)
• Other title: Notes on Contributors --; Introduction --; 1 Parasitism beyond Ethics /; 2 The Paradoxical Universal of Korean Cinema /; 3 Parasite from Text to Context An Ethical Stalemate and New Auteurism in Global Cinema /; 4 From Superfluous to Parasitic Russian Literature, Arendt and Korean Modernity /; 5 Notes from the (Korean) Underground Being-in-the-world Is Being-a-Parasite /; 6 Mice and Cockroaches Parasite through Nietzsche and Dostoevsky /; 7 Planning Not to Plan The Fantasy and Failure of Underclass Solidarity in Parasite /; 8 Bong Joon Ho’s Parasite Viewed in the Context of Pasolini’s Theorem and Deleuze’s Filmic Theories /; 9 From Parasites to Monsters The Unfulfilled Promises of Serres’ Parasitism in Bong Joon-ho’s Neoliberal Social Allegories /; 10 Parasite: A Predicative or a Substantial Concept? /; 11 “A System of Apprehensions” The Art of Parasitism in Lucian’s De Parasito and Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite /; 12 The Parasite Is the Truth of the System /; 13 Parasite and Identity in the “End Times” An Interpretation of Bong Joon-Ho’s Film through the Lens of Slavoj Žižek /; 14 Parasite as a Scaled-Down Disaster Film /; 15 Symbiosis, Interruption, and Exchange Parasite after Serres’ The Parasite /; Index.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004521518
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Thorsten Botz-Bornstein and Giannis Stamatellos.

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.