''Intellectual Sacrifice and Other Mimetic Paradoxes'' is a 2018 book about
sacrifice
Sacrifice is the offering of material possessions or the lives of animals or humans to a deity as an act of propitiation or worship. Evidence of ritual animal sacrifice has been seen at least since ancient Hebrews and Greeks, and possibly exi ...
by
Paolo Diego Bubbio
Paolo Diego Bubbio (born 18 May 1974) is an Italian philosopher and Associate Professor of Philosophy at Western Sydney University. He is known for his research on post-Kantian philosophy, philosophical hermeneutics and philosophy of religion ( ...
, in which the author examines
Rene Girard’s
mimetic theory The mimetic theory of desire, an explanation of human behavior and culture, originated with the French historian, literary critic, and philosopher of social science René Girard (1923-2015). The name of the theory derives from the philosophical ...
. This book collects Bubbio's most significant writings on the topic, and is presented as his intellectual journey over two decades (from 1999 to 2019) through mimetic theory.
Content
The first part is a revised translation of a short book originally published in Italian in 1999: the central thesis here is that philosophy and religion can be regarded as subjects involved in a mimetic rivalry on the intellectual level. In the chapters of the second part of the book, Bubbio addresses several topics developing the dialogue between Girard’s mimetic theory and the Post-Kantian philosophical tradition, and in particular contemporary philosophical hermeneutics. In the final chapter, Bubbio advocates for the need of developing mimetic theory into Hermeneutic Mimetic Theory (or HMT). According to Bubbio, HMT can solve some of the internal problems of mimetic theory in its original version, and at the same time it can offer a meaningful contribution to the development of a new paradigm of the “I”.
[Bubbio, Intellectual Sacrifice and Other Mimetic Paradoxes, p. ix]
See also
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Sacrifice in the Post-Kantian Tradition''
References
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Intellectual Sacrifice and Other Mimetic Paradoxes
2018 non-fiction books
Books about sacrifice
Continental philosophy literature
English-language books
Philosophy books
Michigan State University Press books
Books by Diego Bubbio
1999 non-fiction books