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 dialog with conceptions of mimetic desire, scapegoating, and hominization.
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 dialog with conceptions of mimetic desire, scapegoating, and hominization.
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).
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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
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
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