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René Girard and Creative Mimesis René Girard and Creative Mimesis Edited by Vern Neufeld Redekop and Thomas Ryba LEXINGTONBOOKS Lanham•Boulder •NewYork•Toronto•Plymouth,UK PublishedbyLexingtonBooks AwhollyownedsubsidiaryofRowman&Littlefield 4501ForbesBoulevard,Suite200,Lanham,Maryland20706 www.rowman.com 10ThornburyRoad,PlymouthPL67PP,UnitedKingdom Copyright©2014byLexingtonBooks Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthisbookmaybereproducedinanyformorbyany electronicormechanicalmeans,includinginformationstorageandretrievalsystems, withoutwrittenpermissionfromthepublisher,exceptbyareviewerwhomayquote passagesinareview. BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationInformationAvailable LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationDataAvailable 978-0-7391-6898-1(cloth:alk.)--978-0-7391-6899-8(electronic) TMThepaperusedinthispublicationmeetstheminimumrequirementsofAmerican NationalStandardforInformationSciencesPermanenceofPaperforPrintedLibrary Materials,ANSI/NISOZ39.48-1992. PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica WededicatethisbooktoRenéGirard,atrueexemplarofcreativityand personalwarmth,whosefriendship,hospitality,andgenerosityexemplify thefinestaspectsofcreative,positive,andlovingmimesis. Contents Acknowledgments vii Introduction:RenéGirardandtheProblemofCreativity 1 VernNeufeldRedekopandThomasRyba I:HUMANDEVELOPMENT 1 TransformingIntersubjectiveSpace:FromRuthlessnessto PrimaryCreativityandLovingMimesis 37 MarthaJ.Reineke 2 MimesisandCreativityinLanguageOriginsandLanguage Acquisition 51 ChristinaBiava 3 TheGood,theTrue,andtheBeautifulandRenéGirard’s MimeticTheory 67 RichardMcGuiganandNancyPopp II:ORIGINALITYANDCOMPETITION 4 ModernFreedomandCreativityinGirard,Eagleton,and Taylor:“...truthstrippedofitscloakoftime” 93 AndrewO’Shea 5 ImitationandOriginality:CreativeMimesisinLonginus,Kant, andGirard 111 RobertDoran 6 MimesisandImmortalGlory:HowCreativityIsSpurredbythe DesireforOne’sIdeastoDominatetheMemePool 123 ThomasRyba v vi Contents III:POLITICS,POWER,ANDRELIGION 7 Voxpopuli,voxDei:ThePantheisticTemptationofDemocracy 143 WolfgangPalaver 8 MimeticTheoryinaPositiveCulturalandEconomicLiberal Context 161 PatrickImbert 9 TheCreativeDesireforGod:MimesisBeyondViolencein MonotheisticReligions? 171 ThomasE.Reynolds IV:THEOLOGICALCONCEPTS 10 LonerganonImitatingtheDivineRelations 199 RobertM.Doran 11 OriginalSin,Grace,andPositiveMimesis 221 PetraSteinmair-Pösel 12 NewCreationMetaphors?MimesisandDifference,Creation andEcology 233 AndréLascariso.p. V:PHILOSOPHICALANDSCIENTIFICISSUES 13 HermeneuticalMimesis 249 JoachimDuyndam 14 CellularImitationandViolenceTowardtheNeighbor 259 FrancisTobienne,Jr. 15 Lovevs.Resentment:TheAbsenceofPositiveMimesisin GenerativeAnthropology 275 PabloBandera 16 NatureasaSourceofNon-ConflictualDesire 289 RobinCollins Conclusion 313 VernNeufeldRedekopandThomasRyba Index 323 AbouttheContributors 335
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