Year: 2007
Type: article
Abstract: In questions theory the last is attracting of four violence decades, more and and Rene antagonistic' more Girard public has mimesis. attention preeminently Currently in Europe, dealt his where with mimetic the his questions of violence and antagonistic' mimesis. Currently his mimetic t ry is attracting more and more public attention in Europe whe e his recent publications have been very positively reviewed in important German newspapers and where he has received major awards, such as admission to membership of the Academie Francaise and the Leopold Lucas Prize of the Protestant theological faculty in Tubingen, which he received in May 2006. The explanatory power of mimetic theory with regard to conflicts and violence is held in high regard. However, mimetic theory also faces criticism. One of the most frequent objections to mimetic theory is that Girard ontologizes violence and that the problem of conflicts and violence is given too much significance within the theory. Even though the suspicion of ontologizing violence can and must certainly be rejected Wolfgang Palaver has done this convincingly in his introduction to mimetic theory1 especially in the early writings some passages can be found that might nurture such a suspicion. Rebecca Adams2
Author: Petra Steinmair-Pösel
Institution: Universität Innsbruck
Language: English
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2146529273