RegisterLog in Sign up with one click: Facebook Twitter Google Share on Facebook mimetic desire concept which refers to the inter-dividual nature of desire. The idea of mimetic desire was introduced by the French thinker ReneGIRARD. It has since been appropriated by the American philosopher/ant...
For example, Goebbels’s antisemitic article on mimicry, first published inDas Reichin July 1941 and collected inDie Zeit ohne Beispiellater that year, in which animosity to the Jews is supposedly related to their prey-like capacity for mimicry as a form of biological adaptation and assimilation ...
An important element of the hobbyist quest for knowledge and experience consists in investing the self in an "other" in ways that elicit criticism from outsiders, including anthropologists. Indian hobbyism is a controversial example of "playing at" cultures that (by all conventional standards) ...