If we consider the Johannine literature to have primarily espoused an exemplary (rather than an imperatival) ethical paradigm, our understanding of its moral teaching becomes much richer. The Gospel ...of John does not provide a moral grammar primarily by conveying a set of commands or prohibitions, but through conformity to a moral example (Jesus Christ himself). More specifically, this paper initially approaches the issue by surveying the uses of the imperative in the Gospel of John, the appearances of ὀφείλειν and καθώς, related moral themes, the descriptions of the two Johannine commandments, and the statements of John 13:14–15. The essay then focuses particularly upon the recent work of Cornelis Bennema on the imitative or “mimetic” ethics of John. Bennema has emphasized the “cognitive mimesis” and “performative mimesis” of Johannine ethics, engendered and enabled by the Paraclete. Finally, through an exposition of John 8 and other relevant texts, this essay contributes to the conversation by adding “desiderative mimesis” to Bennema’s proposed framework. As one’s identity (who I am) is transformed, one’s desiderative inclinations (what I desire) are renewed, resulting in changed behavior (how I act).
De todo como en botica. A Quixotic Information Leaflet between Literature, Philosophy and Social Sciences. This paper investigates and compares five interpretations of Cervantes’ masterpiece ...developed during the 20th century in a multidisciplinary field of influences that includes Luigi Pirandello, José Ortega y Gasset, Alfred Schütz, René Girard and Michel Foucault. In order to represent this multiple reading as a whole, we have chosen an inspiring image which refers to both Plato’s and Jacques Derrida’s enquiries on the ambivalence of writing (pharmakon), which is constantly associated to a double meaning: healing and deadly drug, remedy and poison. Pharmacy (botica in old Spanish) is the dispensary where medicinal drugs are prepared or sold; but it is also the place where people look for remedies in order to heal or manage their diseases. The main interest of our analysis does not correspond to a classic conceptual mapping in the strict sense, it rather shows the pivotal role of the novel as a heuristic resource to shape a body of meaningful questions about the human world, in a crossroad of knowledge processes which take place in the 20th century between literary studies, philosophy, sociology, anthropology and history of cultures.
The present interview with Nidesh Lawtoo (lecturer at the University of Lausanne, Johns Hopkins University and KU Leuven and holder of the ERC project re-titled Homo Mimeticus: Theory and Criticism ...from 2017 to 2022) wants to highlight the “broad” and “complex” character of mimesis. The guiding idea is that mimesis – understood not simply as a copy or representation of reality but rather as a drive that leads humans to imitate other humans – provides us with a rich, wide-ranging, and paradoxically original perspective to knowing ourselves better. Thus, in a constant confrontation with the Greek roots of the term and the reflections of some modern and contemporary philosophers, the interview intends to clarify the scope and breadth of that mimetic turn proposed by Lawtoo in contemporary aesthetical debate.
The article develops a view of neural networks as a tool for formulating and verifying philological hypotheses related to various aspects of the generation and reception of a literary text. The ...principles of aesthetic communication are analyzed, in which, thanks to the development of the modern technological environment, an anthropic author, a neural network and a recipient can participate equally. Neuropoetry is interpreted through the metaphor of a “battle of poetic languages” (in accordance with the conventions of the rap battle genre) — as a communicative field in which anthropic and digital authors interact as equal participants in the creative act, jointly forming new prerequisites for the reader’s perception of a literary text. The ‘co-creation’ of anthropic and digital authors is considered in terms of the actor-network theory of Latour. In interactions between a person and a neural network, the latter transcends its purely instrumental function and assumes features of subjectivity. It becomes an equal agent in generating a collective aesthetic statement. Neuropoetry, as a result of co-creation of this kind, is characterized by a double semiotic nature: one part of it is the result of the creation of an anthropic author, while the second demonstrates ‘secondary poetry’, in which the digital author imitates the procedures of natural speech generation. As a result, a new, complicated model of aesthetic communication is formed, complementing the standard positions of the communicative act (author — text — reader) with the level of communicative interaction of anthropic and digital co-authors. The recipient, in the situation of perceiving a text co-written by a person and a neural network, is involved in a complex interpretative game that activates the mechanisms of aesthetic reception, and the act of ‘neuro-creativity’ itself creates new forms of mimesis, which ceases to be ‘imitation of the world’ and becomes ‘imitation of imitation’.
Ann Vasaly introduces representation theory into the study of Ciceronian persuasion and contends that an understanding of milieu—social, political, topographical—is crucial to understanding ...Ciceronian oratory. As a genre uniquely dependent on an immediate interaction between author and audience, ancient oratory becomes performance art.
Vasaly investigates the way Cicero represented the contemporary physical world—places, topography, and monuments, both those seen and those merely mentioned—to his listeners and demonstrates how he used these representations to persuade. Her exceptionally well-written study deftly recaptures the immediacy of Cicero's oratory and makes a trenchant contribution to an important new area of inquiry in Classical Studies.
Franco Crespi è professore emerito di sociologia nell’Università degli studi di Perugia. È direttore della rivista Quaderni di Teoria Sociale. Ha insegnato e svolto attività di studio in numerose ...università e centri di ricerca internazionali, tra cui la Maison des Sciences de l’Homme di Parigi e la Columbia University di New York. Tra le sue numerose pubblicazioni, si ricordano: L’uomo senza dimora (Sapere 1974); Esistenza e simbolico. Prospettive per una cultura alternativa (Feltrinelli 1978); Le vie della sociologia (il Mulino 1985); Social action and power (Blackwell 1992); Imparare ad esistere. Nuovi fondamenti della solidarietà sociale (Donzelli 1994); Manuale di sociologia della cultura (Laterza 1996); Teoria dell’agire sociale (il Mulino 1999); Identità e riconoscimento nella sociologia contemporanea (Laterza 2004); Contro l’aldilà. Per una nuova cultura laica (il Mulino 2008); Emozioni e ragione nelle pratiche sociali (con M. Cerulo, Orthotes 2013); La maladie de l’absolu (Mimesis France,2014); Pourquoi la religion? (Mimesis France 2019).
En este texto proponemos que el fundamento de la teoría mimética de René Girard, que le permitió construir una “antropología fundamental”, se puede encontrar en el realismo estético. Expondremos ...algunas notas características de la relación mimética, para luego poder postular que Girard se opone no solo a la mentira romántica que evita aceptar la mímesis como elemento estructurador del deseo, sino también al fal-seamiento impresionista que oculta la violencia fundadora de las sociedades. Para esto, analizaremos su teoría de la violencia mimética en dos de sus más importantes libros: Mentira romántica y verdad novelesca y La violencia y lo sagrado, y la expondremos de cara a los conceptos del Romanticismo, el Realismo y el Impresionismo, tomados de la historia del arte y la literatura. Por último, haremos una breve mención a la ausencia de evidencia empírica, como crítica a la antropología fundamental girardiana, para concluir que tal proceder no impide hablar de un realismo en esta teoría.
This book is the first integral study of the history of imitative or co-creative artistic work that has led to the creation of cello transcriptions and arrangements. Of an interdisciplinary ...character, it explores the views that have shaped approaches to the art of cello performance and describes the role of cello transcriptions and the development of instrument making. The book also addresses issues related to philosophy, history of aesthetics and visual arts, including iconography presenting historical images of the cello. The theoretical part contains definitions and systematics that make it possible to categorise the vast amount of transcriptions, as well as descriptions and suggested recordings of a selection of those transcriptions.
El prestigio cultural de la mímesis ritual García-Sánchez, Rafael; García-Córdoba, Miguel; García-León, Josefina ...
Memoria y civilización,
2023, Volume:
26, Issue:
1
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Open access
En general, la mímesis puede ser de orden ritual, visual o cognitiva. La mímesis más antigua tiene lugar en el marco de los ritos, pero en tiempos de empobrecimiento simbólico, muchos de ellos han ...perdido su antiguo vigor y, a veces, han quedado reducidos a mero folclore. La mímesis visual fue abordada por Platón de la que afirmó que no permitía conocer la realidad con la profundidad ni con la perfección con que era posible hacerlo mediante el rito o la reflexión. Aristóteles profundizó en una mímesis de índole cognitiva, señalando que a partir de ella podían conocerse las leyes de la naturaleza, sus fines y el modo en que opera para conseguirlos. Al analizar estos tipos de mímesis trataremos de poner de relieve que una forma legítima y eficaz de reconectar al hombre con el mundo y con la realidad es la puesta en valor del rito.
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