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Mimetic Reflections

Mimetic Reflections

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Series: Language and Legal Discourse

PhilosophyReligion General

ISBN10: 0823212548
ISBN13: 9780823212545
Publisher: Fordham Univ Pr
Published: Jan 1 1990
Pages: 267
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
This book argues that a basic problem in thinking about understanding, temporality, and selfhood is due to imitative modes of thought found in much traditional Western philosophy and theology. Given this, the book examines the complex role that image and imitation play in understanding and its world of meaning, the import of language and narrative for configuring human temporality, and the existence of self. The author's contention is that when critically understood, mimesis, with its roots in performative enactment, holds resources for reconsidering these basic dimensions of human life beyond imitative paradigms of thought.

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