Rene Girard and the phenomenology of mimetic desire
René Girard has been critiqued for failing to ground his theory of mimetic desire in a discursive and philosophically robust framework. In order to meet this objection, I argue that René Girard’s theory of mimetic desire can be successfully motivated by a phenomenology of the emptiness of selfhood a...
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| description | René Girard has been critiqued for failing to ground his theory of mimetic desire in a discursive and philosophically robust framework. In order to meet this objection, I argue that René Girard’s theory of mimetic desire can be successfully motivated by a phenomenology of the emptiness of selfhood and intersubjectivity. After grounding Girard’s theory in a phenomenology of no-self, I reconstruct Girard’s argument that violence is a necessary consequence of internally mediated mimetic desire |
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| spelling | doaj-art-1937d3d13efb4ed7a557c0d5cbc811a42025-08-20T03:52:33ZdeuWydawnictwo Naukowe Chrześcijańskiej Akademii Teologicznej w Warszawie (Scientific Publishing House of the Christian Academy of Theology in Warsaw)Studia z Teorii Wychowania2083-09982719-40782023-09-01XIV2 (43)438210.5604/01.3001.0053.907101.3001.0053.9071Rene Girard and the phenomenology of mimetic desireGregory Moss0Chinese University of Hong KongRené Girard has been critiqued for failing to ground his theory of mimetic desire in a discursive and philosophically robust framework. In order to meet this objection, I argue that René Girard’s theory of mimetic desire can be successfully motivated by a phenomenology of the emptiness of selfhood and intersubjectivity. After grounding Girard’s theory in a phenomenology of no-self, I reconstruct Girard’s argument that violence is a necessary consequence of internally mediated mimetic desirehttp://sztw.chat.edu.pl/gicid/01.3001.0053.9071Mimetic DesireImitationSelfhoodOthernessViolence |
| spellingShingle | Gregory Moss Rene Girard and the phenomenology of mimetic desire Studia z Teorii Wychowania Mimetic Desire Imitation Selfhood Otherness Violence |
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| topic | Mimetic Desire Imitation Selfhood Otherness Violence |
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