Intellectual Sacrifice and Other Mimetic Paradoxes

PAOLO DIEGO BUBBIO is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Western Sydney University. The winner of an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship, he has been researching and writing about mimetic theory for twenty years. He is the author of Sacrifice in the Post-Kantian Tradition: Perspectivism, Intersubjectivity, and Recognition and God and the Self in Hegel: Beyond Subjectivism.

“Intellectual Sacrifice and Other Mimetic Paradoxes is an excellent piece of historical and critical research. Bubbio’s book travels far and wide down many paths, and exemplarily shows the violent struggle between a metaphysical philosophy and a metaphysical religion in the history of Western thought. Intellectual Sacrifice and Other Mimetic Paradoxes is one of the best works on mimetic theory that I have ever read.”—GIANNI VATTIMO, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, University of Turin, Italy, author of Belief and Weak Thought, and coauthor (with René Girard) of Christianity, Truth, and Weak Faith

• Contents Preface Acknowledgments Abbreviations Part 1. Intellectual Sacrifice Chapter 1. Intellectual Expulsion Chapter 2. Historical Forms of Mystification Chapter 3. The Path of Demystification Conclusion A Letter from René Girard Part 2. Other Mimetic Paradoxes Transition: Corrections and Paradoxes Girard’s Ontological Argument for the Existence of God Mimetic Theory’s Post-Kantian Legacy Mimetic Theory and Hermeneutic Communism The Self in Crisis Hermeneutic Mimetic Theory Bibliography Index