Intellectual Sacrifice and Other Mimetic Paradoxes
{{short description|2018 book about sacrifice by Paolo Diego Bubbio}}
{{Infobox book
| name = Intellectual Sacrifice and Other Mimetic Paradoxes
| author = Diego Bubbio
| image = File:Intellectual Sacrifice.jpg
| caption = First edition (English)
| language = English
| subject = sacrifice, mimetic theory
| publisher = Michigan State University Press
| pub_date = 2018
| media_type = Print
| pages = 244 pp.
| isbn = 978-1611862737
}}
Intellectual Sacrifice and Other Mimetic Paradoxes is a 2018 book about sacrifice by Paolo Diego Bubbio, in which the author examines Rene Girard’s mimetic theory. 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.{{cite journal |last1=Duns |first1=Ryan G. |title=Book Review: Intellectual Sacrifice and Other Mimetic Paradoxes. By Paolo Diego Bubbio |journal=Theological Studies |date=1 September 2018 |volume=79 |issue=3 |pages=707–708 |doi=10.1177/0040563918786811q |language=en |issn=0040-5639}}{{cite journal |last1=Gruenler |first1=Curtis |title=Hermeneutic Mimetic Theory: A Review of Intellectual Sacrifice and Other Mimetic Paradoxes |journal=The Bulletin of the Colloquium on Violence & Religion |volume=55 |date=February 2018 |url=https://violenceandreligion.com/publications/bulletin-55-february-2018/}}
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
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External links
- [https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.14321/j.ctt1ws7x0t Intellectual Sacrifice and Other Mimetic Paradoxes]
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