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Intellectual Sacrifice and Other Mimetic Paradoxes / Paolo Diego Bubbio.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bubbio, Paolo Diego, 1974- author.
- Series:
- Studies in violence, mimesis, and culture.
- Studies in violence, mimesis, and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Girard, Rene, 1923-2015.
- Girard, Rene.
- Sacrifice.
- Mimesis.
- Philosophy and religion.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- Intellectual Sacrifice and Other Mimetic Paradoxes is an account of Paolo Diego Bubbio's twenty-year intellectual journey through the twists and turns of Girard's mimetic theory. The author analyzes philosophy and religion as "enemy sisters" engaged in an endless competitive struggle and identifies the intellectual space where this rivalry can either be perpetuated or come to a paradoxical resolution. He goes on to explore topics ranging from arguments for the existence of God to mimetic theory's post-Kantian legacy, political implications, and capacity for identifying epochal phenomena, such as the crisis of the self, in popular culture. Bubbio concludes by advocating for an encounter between mimetic theory and contemporary philosophical hermeneutics--an encounter in which each approach benefits and is enriched by the resources of the other. The volume features a previously unpublished letter by Ren Girard on the relationship between philosophy and religion.
- Contents:
- Intellectual sacrifice
- Intellectual expulsion
- Historical forms of mystification
- The path of demystification
- Conclusion
- A brief letter from Rene Girard
- Other mimetic paradoxes
- Interlude: corrections and paradoxes
- Girard's ontological argument for the existence of God
- Mimetic theory's post-Kantian legacy
- Mimetic theory and hermeneutic Communism
- The self in crisis
- Hermeneutic mimetic theory.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-62895-322-5
- 1-60917-555-7
- OCLC:
- 1012883937
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