This is a book review of Nidesh Lawtoo's 2022 book titled Homo Mimeticus: A New Theory of Imitation. In the book Latwoo offers a "re-turn" to the concept of mimessis by revisiting the Western philosophical traditions starting from Plato to Baudrillard. His key intervention is the introduction - if not excavation - of new ways of understanding mimesis in a world vastly changed from Plato's time. Some of the key concepts employed and created in this book are 'patho-logy', 'gendered mimesis', postcolonial mimesis' and viral mimesis. This is wide ranging book not only of interest to people within disciplinary boundaries of philosophy and arts, but anyone broadly interested in the history and shape of the human intellectual history.
