Mimetic politics
Subtitle: dyadic patterns in global politics
By: Roberto Farneti
Series: Studies in violence, mimesis, and culture; Studies in violence, mimesis, and culture
Publisher: Michigan State University Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: East Lansing
Language: eng
Number of pages: 177
ISBN-13: 9781611861488
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Gewalt; Social aspects; Violence; Nachahmung; Kulturvergleich; Cross-cultural studies; Imitation; Political science; Konfliktforschung
Other titles: Dyadic patterns in global politics
Description: Farneti highlights phenomena that political scientists have consistently failed to notice, such as reciprocal imitation as the fundamental cause of human discord, the mechanisms of spontaneous polarization in human conflicts (i.e., the emergence of dyads or "doubles"), and the strange and ever-growing resemblance of the mimetic rivals, which is precisely what pushes them to annihilate each other--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-172) and index.
Table of contents: title: A new (mimetic) paradigm for our postsacrificial times; title: The mimetic context of the "new wars"; title: Cleavage lines in global politics; title: A mimetic perspective on conflict resolution; title: A political theology of the empty tomb; title: Epilogue : A genealogy of "planetary reciprocity."