This book argues that a basic problem in thinking about understanding, temporality, and selfhood is due to "imitative" modes of thought found in much traditional Western philosophy and theology. Given this, the book examines the complex role that "image" and "imitation" play in understanding and its world of meaning, the import of language and narrative for configuring human temporality, and the existence of self. The author's contention is that when critically understood, mimesis, with its roots in performative enactment, holds resources for reconsidering these basic dimensions of human life beyond imitative paradigms of thought.
- ISBN10 0823212548
- ISBN13 9780823212545
- Publish Date 1 January 1990
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Fordham University Press
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 267
- Language English