Rene Girard and the phenomenology of mimetic desire

• Authors: Gregory Moss

Abstracts

EN

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.

Keywords

EN

Mimetic Desire; Imitation; Selfhood; Otherness; Violence

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Chrześcijańskiej Akademii Teologicznej w Warszawie
• Journal: Studia z Teorii Wychowania
• Year: 2023
• Volume: XIV(2 (43))
• Pages: 43-82

Dates

published

2023

Contributors

author

Gregory Moss

• Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

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Identifiers

DOI

10.5604/01.3001.0053.9071

Biblioteka Nauki

36799752