René Girard and Creative Mimesis -

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Résumé :
Contextual Introduction: Ren? Girard and the Problem of Creativity Vern Neufeld Redekop and Thomas Ryba Part I. CREATIVE MIMESIS: HUMAN DEVELOPMENT Chapter 1: Transforming Intersubjective Space: From Ruthlessness to Primary Creativity and Loving Mimesis Martha Reineke Chapter 2: Mimesis and Creativity in Language Origins and Language Acquisition Christina Biava Chapter 3: The Good, the True, and the Beautiful and Ren? Girard's Mimetic Theory Richard McGuigan and Nancy Popp Part II. ORIGINALITY AND COMPETITION Chapter 4: Modern Freedom and Creativity: truth stripped of its cloak of time . . . Andrew O'Shea Chapter 5: Mimetic Theory and the Question of Originality Robert Doran Chapter 6: Mimesis and Immortal Glory: How Creativity is Spurred by the Desire for One's Ideas to Dominate the Meme Pool Thomas Ryba Part III. POLITICS, POWER AND RELIGION Chapter 7: Vox popluli, Vox Dei: The Pantheistic Temptation of Democracy Wolfgang Palaver Chapter 8: The Girardian Mimetic Theory and its Reading in a Positive Cultural and Economic Liberal Context Patrick Imbert Chapter 9: The Creative Desire for God: Mimesis Beyond Violence in Monotheistic Religion Thomas Reynolds Part IV. THEOLOGICAL CONCEPTS Chapter 10: Lonergan's 'Imitating the Divine Relations': A Theological Contribution to Mimetic Theology Robert M. Doran, S.J. Chapter 11: Original Sin, Grace and Positive Mimesis Petra Steinmair-P?sel Chapter 12: New Creation Metaphors? Mimesis and difference, creation and ecology Andre Lascaris Part V. PHILOSOPHICAL AND SCIENTIFIC ISSUES Chapter 13: Hermeneutical Mimesis Joachim Duyndam Chapter 14: The Imitation of the Cellular and Violence Toward the Neighbor Francis Tobienne, Jr. Chapter 15: Love vs. Resentment: The Absence of Positive Mimesis in Generative Anthropology Pablo Bandera Chapter 16: Nature as a Source of Positive Desire Robin Collins...

Biographie:

Vern Neufeld Redekop is a full professor in the School of Conflict Studies at Saint Paul University, Ottawa. He is the co-author of Introduction to Conflict Studies: Empirical, Theoretical, and Ethical Dimensions (2012) and Beyond Control: A Mutual Respect Approach to Protest Crowd - Police Relations (2010).

Thomas Ryba is Notre Dame Theologian-in-Residence at the Saint Thomas Aquinas Catholic Center as well as lecturer in philosophy and religious studies and adjunct professor of Jewish studies at Purdue University. He is the co-editor of For Ren? Girard: Essays in Friendship and in Truth (2008) and was North American editor of Religion (2004-2007).