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/anthropologist Eric Gans whoseGENERATIVE ANTHROPOLOGYspeculates about the role of mimetic ...
Applying Rene Girard's mimetic theory to film, scholars of film, literature, and other humanities discuss Bunuel's apocalypse now; on fiction and truth: Joshua Oppenheimer's The Act of Killing; passing "The Imitation Game:" ex machina, the ethical, and mimetic theory; femina ex machina; look...
Modernity has, in effect, caused people to fall into the trap of thinking that one can do what one pleases, despite the fact that the trappings of modern culture cause us to fall farther and farther down the rabbit hole of mimetic desire. Scott Cowdell, Rene Girard and Secular Modernity: ...
GIRARD, Rene, 1923-2015DIFFERENCE (Philosophy)INTERSUBJECTIVITYVIOLENCERené 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 ...
This article aims at introducing René Girard's mimetic theory in the field of International Studies, identifying some of the areas of research that it might usefully open up. First, the article explores mimetic theory and some of its basic concepts—mimetic desire, mimetic rivalry, the scapegoat...
8.Rene Girard, the French philosopher who established the theory, argued that most of our desires are metaphysical and called them mimetic because we mimic them from the people around us. 创立该理论的法国哲学家勒内·基拉尔认为,我们的大多数欲望都是而上的,并称其为模仿,因为我们模仿的是周围的人。
He agrees with Bandera that there are differences between generative anthropology and mimetic theory. But he refutes the views of Bandera on Girard's scapegoat theory.关键词: PHILOSOPHY of anthropology GANS, Eric GIRARD, Rene, 1923-2015 DESIRE (Philosophy) SCAPEGOAT BANDERA, Pablo DOI: 10.1353/...
The concept of mimetic desire is rooted in Rene Girard's theory of anthropology but can be traced back as far as Plato's Republic. Therefore, this interdisciplinary concept has been explored through Augustine's narratological composition of Confessiones. The introspective tone and...
In the first of three parts the reader is introduced to Ren茅 Girard's interdisciplinary theory of religion as he developed it throughout his academic career. From his initial formulation of "mimetic desire" in his work on the Europen novel (Deceit, Desire, and the Novel 1961/1965), over...
mimetic desirescapegoat mechanismRene GirardstrongBACKGROUND/strong: The most fundamental question about sport is what is sport, what is its origin and its essence? Because sport is connected with the human being (there is no sport without human beings) different anthropological visions of human ...