Prospettivismo e secolarizzazione : l'eredità post-Kantiana della teoria mimetica

Translated title of the contribution: Perspectivism and secularization : the post-Kantian legacy of mimetic theory

Paolo Diego Bubbio

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    Abstract

    The chapter has three main goals. The first goal is to contextualise Girard within the current debate between the 'new atheists' and the 'new theists', showing how the debate itself is made possible only by a shared endorsement of a meta-naturalism that rejects the 'transcendental turn' of Kantian and post-Kantian perspectivism. I therefore investigate the extent to which Girard belongs to such philosophical tradition. More specifically, the second goal consists in showing what Girard has in common with contemporary hermeneutics, considered as the philosophical development of post-Kantian perspectivism. In the context of this analysis, I argue that Girard’s thought implies a fundamental distinction between a 'sacred' and a religious hermeneutics. Building on the result of this twofold investigation, I then proceed to analyse the notion of secularization, considered as a process of progressive endorsement of perspectivism. I conclude by arguing that the perspectivism of the mimetic theory leads to a non-foundationalist stance analogous to Pascal’s 'wager'.
    Translated title of the contributionPerspectivism and secularization : the post-Kantian legacy of mimetic theory
    Original languageItalian
    Title of host publicationReligioni Laicità Secolarizzazione: Il Cristianesimo come "fine del sacro" in René Girard
    EditorsMaria Stella Barberi, Silvio Morigi
    Place of PublicationItaly
    PublisherTranseuropa
    Pages107-129
    Number of pages23
    ISBN (Print)9788875800598
    Publication statusPublished - 2009

    Keywords

    • perspectivism
    • secularization
    • mimetic theory
    • Girard, Rene, 1923-

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