Mimetic Reflections - A Study in Hermeneutics, Theology, and Ethics (Hardcover)

This book argues that a basic problem in thinking about understanding, temporality, and selfhood is due to "imitative" modes of thought found in much traditional Western philosophy and theology. Given this, the book examines the complex role that "image" and "imitation" play in understanding and its world of meaning, the import of language and narrative for configuring human temporality, and the existence of self. The author's contention is that when critically understood, mimesis, with its roots in performative enactment, holds resources for reconsidering these basic dimensions of human life beyond imitative paradigms of thought.

General

Imprint:	Fordham University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	1990
First published:	1990
Authors:	William Schweiker
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth / Cloth
Pages:	267
ISBN-13:	978-0-8232-1253-8
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > General Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > General
LSN:	0-8232-1253-X
Barcode:	9780823212538

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