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René Girard and Creative Mimesis

von: Vern Neufeld Redekop, Thomas Ryba, Pablo Bandera, Christina Biava, Robin Collins, Robert Doran, S. J. Robert Doran, Joachim Duyndam, Patrick Imbert, André Lascaris, Richard McGuigan, Wolfgang Palaver, Andrew O'Shea, Nancy Popp, Petra Steinmair-Pösel, Martha Reineke, Thomas E. Reynolds, Francis Tobienne
57,99 €
Verlag:	Lexington Books
Format:	EPUB
Veröffentl.:	21.11.2013
ISBN/EAN:	9780739168998
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	342

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Titelbeschreibung

For half a century René Girard’s theories of mimetic desire and scapegoating have captivated the imagination of thinkers and doers in many fields as an incisive look into the human condition, particularly the roots of violence. In a 1993 interview with Rebecca Adams, he highlighted the positive dimensions of mimetic phenomena without expanding on what they might be. Now, two decades later, this groundbreaking book systematically explores the positive side of mimetic theory in the context of the multi-faceted world of creativity. Several authors build on Adams’ insight that loving mimesis can be understood as desiring the subjectivity of the other, particularly when the other may be young or wounded. With highly nuanced arguments authors show how mimetic theory can be used to address child and adult development, including the growth of consciousness and a capacity to handle complexity. Mimetic theory is brought to bear on big questions about creativity in nature, evolutionary development, originality, and religious intrusion into politics.

Titelkurzbeschreibung

This book explores the nature and implications of positive, creative, and loving mimesis and brings together the interdisciplinary fields of Girardian studies and creativity studies. Scientists, philosophers, psychologists, theologians and ancient thinkers are brought into dialogue with conceptions of mimetic desire, scapegoating, and hominization.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contextual Introduction: René Girard and the Problem of Creativity
 
Vern Neufeld Redekop and Thomas Ryba
 
Part I. CREATIVE MIMESIS: HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
 
Chapter 1: Transforming Intersubjective Space: From Ruthlessness to Primary Creativity and Loving Mimesis
 
Martha Reineke
 
Chapter 2: Mimesis and Creativity in Language Origins and Language Acquisition
 
Christina Biava
 
Chapter 3: The Good, the True, and the Beautiful and René Girard’s Mimetic Theory
 
Richard McGuigan and Nancy Popp
 
Part II. ORIGINALITY AND COMPETITION
 
Chapter 4: Modern Freedom and Creativity: “truth stripped of its cloak of time . . .”
 
Andrew O’Shea
 
Chapter 5: Mimetic Theory and the Question of Originality
 
Robert Doran
 
Chapter 6: Mimesis and Immortal Glory: How Creativity is Spurred by the Desire for One’s Ideas to Dominate the Meme Pool
 
Thomas Ryba
 
Part III. POLITICS, POWER AND RELIGION
 
Chapter 7: Vox popluli, Vox Dei: The Pantheistic Temptation of Democracy
 
Wolfgang Palaver
 
Chapter 8: The Girardian Mimetic Theory and its Reading in a Positive Cultural and Economic Liberal Context
 
Patrick Imbert
 
Chapter 9: The Creative Desire for God: Mimesis Beyond Violence in Monotheistic Religion
 
Thomas Reynolds
 
Part IV. THEOLOGICAL CONCEPTS
 
Chapter 10: Lonergan’s ‘Imitating the Divine Relations’: A Theological Contribution to Mimetic Theology
 
Robert M. Doran, S.J.
 
Chapter 11: Original Sin, Grace and Positive Mimesis
 
Petra Steinmair-Pösel
 
Chapter 12: New Creation Metaphors? Mimesis and difference, creation and ecology
 
Andre Lascaris
 
Part V. PHILOSOPHICAL AND SCIENTIFIC ISSUES
 
Chapter 13: Hermeneutical Mimesis
 
Joachim Duyndam
 
Chapter 14: The Imitation of the Cellular and Violence Toward the Neighbor
 
Francis Tobienne, Jr.
 
Chapter 15: Love vs. Resentment: The Absence of Positive Mimesis in Generative Anthropology
 
Pablo Bandera
 
Chapter 16: Nature as a Source of Positive Desire
 
Robin Collins

Autorenportrait

Vern Neufeld Redekop is a full professor in the School of Conflict Studies at Saint Paul University, Ottawa. He is the co-author of Introduction to Conflict Studies: Empirical, Theoretical, and Ethical Dimensions (2012) and Beyond Control: A Mutual Respect Approach to Protest Crowd – Police Relations (2010). Thomas Ryba is Notre Dame Theologian-in-Residence at the Saint Thomas Aquinas Catholic Center as well as lecturer in philosophy and religious studies and adjunct professor of Jewish studies at Purdue University. He is the co-editor of For René Girard: Essays in Friendship and in Truth (2008) and was North American editor of Religion (2004-2007).