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The Mimetic Tradition of Reform in the West / Karl F. Morrison.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Princeton Legacy Library ; 777Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©1982Edition: Course BookDescription: 1 online resource (466 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780691614298
  • 9781400856190
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 909 19
LOC classification:
  • CB245
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- I Forming The Mimetic Tradition -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Basic Patterns of Mimetic Action in Greek Thought -- Chapter 2. Assimilation of Mimetic Doctrines with Old Testament Theology -- Chapter 3. Mimesis as a Strategy of Historical Progress: The Patristic Stage of the Classical Tradition -- II. Changes in the Mimetic Strategy During the Reconstitution of Europe -- Introduction -- Chapter 4. "Christ in Us, Moving Toward The Father": Paschasius Radbertus's View of History -- Chapter 5. Mimetic Principles of Church Government: Hincmar of Rheims -- Chapter 6. Summary and Anticipation: The Transit of Jesus -- Chapter 7. Strategic Reorientations -- Chapter 8. Thomas Aquinas's Recapitulation Theory of Tradition -- Chapter 9. Toward a New Theory of Progress by Augmentation -- III. Mimesis in the Renewal of the Classical Tradition: ca. 1500-1900 -- Chapter 10. Challenges to the Mimetic Tradition -- Chapter 11. Continuity of Mimetic Strategies in the Sixteenth Century -- Chapter 12. Continuity of Mimetic Strategies in the Enlightenment -- Chapter 13. Mimesis by Augmentation in two Theories of Historical Development -- Chapter 14. Four Lutheran Reconstitutions of Mimesis As an Historical Strategy -- Chapter 15. The Art of Revolution and the Nineteenth Century -- Chapter 16. Epilogue: On the longue durée Of Mimesis -- Appendix. Thinking Mimetically About History: Some Bibliographical Orientations -- Index
Summary: Ancient writers distinguished between art and style, arguing that free imitation was a critical strategy that freed artists from servile copying of objects and blind submission to rules of style. In this study Karl F. Morrison explores the far-reaching consequences of this distinction.Originally published in 1982.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- I Forming The Mimetic Tradition -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Basic Patterns of Mimetic Action in Greek Thought -- Chapter 2. Assimilation of Mimetic Doctrines with Old Testament Theology -- Chapter 3. Mimesis as a Strategy of Historical Progress: The Patristic Stage of the Classical Tradition -- II. Changes in the Mimetic Strategy During the Reconstitution of Europe -- Introduction -- Chapter 4. "Christ in Us, Moving Toward The Father": Paschasius Radbertus's View of History -- Chapter 5. Mimetic Principles of Church Government: Hincmar of Rheims -- Chapter 6. Summary and Anticipation: The Transit of Jesus -- Chapter 7. Strategic Reorientations -- Chapter 8. Thomas Aquinas's Recapitulation Theory of Tradition -- Chapter 9. Toward a New Theory of Progress by Augmentation -- III. Mimesis in the Renewal of the Classical Tradition: ca. 1500-1900 -- Chapter 10. Challenges to the Mimetic Tradition -- Chapter 11. Continuity of Mimetic Strategies in the Sixteenth Century -- Chapter 12. Continuity of Mimetic Strategies in the Enlightenment -- Chapter 13. Mimesis by Augmentation in two Theories of Historical Development -- Chapter 14. Four Lutheran Reconstitutions of Mimesis As an Historical Strategy -- Chapter 15. The Art of Revolution and the Nineteenth Century -- Chapter 16. Epilogue: On the longue durée Of Mimesis -- Appendix. Thinking Mimetically About History: Some Bibliographical Orientations -- Index

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Ancient writers distinguished between art and style, arguing that free imitation was a critical strategy that freed artists from servile copying of objects and blind submission to rules of style. In this study Karl F. Morrison explores the far-reaching consequences of this distinction.Originally published in 1982.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Issued also in print.

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