East West Mimesis
Title | East West Mimesis PDF eBook |
Author | Kader Konuk |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Pages | 316 |
Release | 2010-09-21 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0804775753 |
East West Mimesis follows the plight of German-Jewish humanists who escaped Nazi persecution by seeking exile in a Muslim-dominated society. Kader Konuk asks why philologists like Erich Auerbach found humanism at home in Istanbul at the very moment it was banished from Europe. She challenges the notion of exile as synonymous with intellectual isolation and shows the reciprocal effects of German émigrés on Turkey's humanist reform movement. By making literary critical concepts productive for our understanding of Turkish cultural history, the book provides a new approach to the study of East-West relations. Central to the book is Erich Auerbach's Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature, written in Istanbul after he fled Germany in 1936. Konuk draws on some of Auerbach's key concepts—figura as a way of conceptualizing history and mimesis as a means of representing reality—to show how Istanbul shaped Mimesis and to understand Turkey's humanist reform movement as a type of cultural mimesis.
Mimesis
Title | Mimesis PDF eBook |
Author | Erich Auerbach |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780691012698 |
Mimesis
Title | Mimesis PDF eBook |
Author | Gunter Gebauer |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 424 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780520084599 |
"A fundamental historical account of the much-cited but little-studied concept of mimesis, and an essential starting point for all future discussions of this crucial critical concept."—Hayden White
Soka Gakkai’s Human Revolution
Title | Soka Gakkai’s Human Revolution PDF eBook |
Author | Levi McLaughlin |
Publisher | University of Hawaii Press |
Pages | 241 |
Release | 2018-12-31 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0824877896 |
Soka Gakkai is Japan’s largest and most influential new religious organization: It claims more than 8 million Japanese households and close to 2 million members in 192 countries and territories. The religion is best known for its affiliated political party, Komeito (the Clean Government Party), which comprises part of the ruling coalition in Japan’s National Diet, and it exerts considerable influence in education, media, finance, and other key areas. Levi McLaughlin’s comprehensive account of Soka Gakkai draws on nearly two decades of archival research and non-member fieldwork to account for its institutional development beyond Buddhism and suggest how we should understand the activities and dispositions of its adherents. McLaughlin explores the group’s Nichiren Buddhist origins and turns to insights from religion, political science, anthropology, and cultural studies to characterize Soka Gakkai as mimetic of the nation-state. Ethnographic vignettes combine with historical evidence to demonstrate ways Soka Gakkai’s twin Buddhist and modern humanist legacies inform the organization’s mimesis of the modern Japan in which the group took shape. To make this argument, McLaughlin analyzes Gakkai sources heretofore untreated in English-language scholarship; provides a close reading of the serial novel The Human Revolution, which serves the Gakkai as both history and de facto scripture; identifies ways episodes from members’ lives form new chapters in its growing canon; and contributes to discussions of religion and gender as he chronicles the lives of members who simultaneously reaffirm generational transmission of Gakkai devotion as they pose challenges for the organization’s future. Readers looking for analyses of the nation-state and strategies for understanding New Religions and modern Buddhism will find Soka Gakkai’s Human Revolution to be an especially thought-provoking study that offers widely applicable theoretical models.
Mimesis and Reason
Title | Mimesis and Reason PDF eBook |
Author | Gregg Daniel Miller |
Publisher | State University of New York Press |
Pages | 202 |
Release | 2011-09-23 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1438437412 |
Complicating the standard interpretation of Habermas as a proceduralist, Mimesis and Reason uncovers the role that mimesis, or imitation, plays as a genuinely political force in communicative action. Through a penetrating examination of Habermas's use of themes and concepts from Plato, George Herbert Mead, and Walter Benjamin, Gregg Daniel Miller reconstructs Habermas's theory to reveal a new, postmetaphysical articulation of reason that lays the groundwork for new directions in political theory.
Humanism and Democratic Criticism
Title | Humanism and Democratic Criticism PDF eBook |
Author | Edward W. Said |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Pages | 188 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9780231122641 |
brought on by advances in technological communication, intellectual specialization, and cultural sensitivity -- has eroded the former primacy of the humanities, Edward Said argues that a more democratic form of humanism -- one that aims to incorporate, emancipate, and enlighten --
Myth, Mimesis and Magic in the Music of the T'boli, Philippines
Title | Myth, Mimesis and Magic in the Music of the T'boli, Philippines PDF eBook |
Author | Manolete Mora |
Publisher | Ateneo University Press |
Pages | 246 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9789715504935 |
Why is musical mimesis so much a part of the cultural world of indigenous Filipinos? What does it tell us about their musical sensibilities and their social world? This book addresses these issues through a study of the relations between musical poetics, myth, and magic in the musical and spiritual lives of T'boli men and women from the highlands of southwestern Mindanao. Manolete Mora's study shows that musical mimesis is an intrinsic part of the cultural process of interpreting, articulating, making, and remaking the world. More significantly, it suggests that musical mimesis is intimately linked to a moral universe that is grounded in reciprocity. Musical mimesis is a way of establishing contact, fusion and identity with the other, and this is possible because of the existence of concepts of knowledge and being that are fundamentally different from our own. This book embraces wide-ranging ethnographic materials and issues that will be of interest to the musicologist, anthropologist, and student of Southeast Asian folklore and cross-cultural aesthetics.