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.
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-Pö sel
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
