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Mimetic Reflections : A Study in Hermeneutics, Theology, and Ethics / William Schweiker.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©1990Description: 1 online resource (267 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780823212545
  • 9780823296088
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 190
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- PREFACE. By Way of Introduction -- 1. A Shattered Universe -- 2. Understanding as Mimesis of World -- 3. Narrative as Mimesis of Time -- 4. Self as Mimesis of Life -- 5. The Analogies of Mimetic Practices -- 6. Mimetic Reflections: Toward a Theology and Ethics -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX
Summary: 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.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780823296088

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- PREFACE. By Way of Introduction -- 1. A Shattered Universe -- 2. Understanding as Mimesis of World -- 3. Narrative as Mimesis of Time -- 4. Self as Mimesis of Life -- 5. The Analogies of Mimetic Practices -- 6. Mimetic Reflections: Toward a Theology and Ethics -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 03. Jan 2023)