Mimetic Politics - Dyadic Patterns in Global Politics

Informationen zum Autor Roberto Farneti is Assistant Professor of Politics at the School of Economics and Management of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano in Italy. Klappentext Using mimetic theory to engage political studies, Farneti highlights 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. Zusammenfassung War, violence, and the disruption of social orders are critical areas of focus in mimetic theory, and a mimetic perspective applied to the study of politics illuminates social processes and phenomena over and beyond typical explanations offered by mainstream political science.

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• Authors: Roberto Farneti
• Publisher: Michigan state university pres
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2015
• EAN: 9781611861488
• ISBN: 978-1-61186-148-8
• No. of pages: 194
• Series: Studies in Violence, Mimesis,; Studies in Violence, Mimesis,; Studies in Violence, Mimesis &; Studies in Violence, Mimesis, and Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education