René Girard and Creative Mimesis

Herausgeber: Redekop, Vern Neufeld; Ryba, Thomas

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. November 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 721g
• ISBN-13: 9780739168981
• ISBN-10: 0739168983
• Artikelnr.: 39359238

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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