Mimesis
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Mimesis is the representation of aspects of the real world, especially human actions, in literature and art. It is a concept used in philosophy, aesthetics and literary criticism, with many associated
J.M.W. Turner, Snow Storm: Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth (1842)
Claude Monet, Impression, Sunrise (1872). Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris.
René Girard
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René Noël Théophile Girard was a French academic best known for developing mimetic theory, which posits that human desire is fundamentally imitative, leading to rivalry, violence and the scapegoat mec
Mimesis
…Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, Paul Ricœur, Guy Debord (via his conceptual polemical tract, The Society of the Spectacle) Luce Irigaray, Jacques Derrida, René Girard, Nikolas Kompridis, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Michael Taussig, Merlin Donald, Homi Bhabha, Roberto Calasso, and Nidesh Lawtoo. During the nineteenth…
Girard in 2007
Saint Augustine by Philippe de Champaigne
St thomas aquinas FXD
Duns Scotus Painting