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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Main Author: Gregory Moss
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Published: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Chrześcijańskiej Akademii Teologicznej w Warszawie (Scientific Publishing House of the Christian Academy of Theology in Warsaw) 2023-09-01
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Online Access:http://sztw.chat.edu.pl/gicid/01.3001.0053.9071
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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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Rene Girard and the phenomenology of mimetic desire
Studia z Teorii Wychowania
Mimetic Desire
Imitation
Selfhood
Otherness
Violence
title Rene Girard and the phenomenology of mimetic desire
title_full Rene Girard and the phenomenology of mimetic desire
title_fullStr Rene Girard and the phenomenology of mimetic desire
title_full_unstemmed Rene Girard and the phenomenology of mimetic desire
title_short Rene Girard and the phenomenology of mimetic desire
title_sort rene girard and the phenomenology of mimetic desire
topic Mimetic Desire
Imitation
Selfhood
Otherness
Violence
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