Levy: Prophecy, Written Language, and the Mimetic Faculty. Like Spinoza. German: Walter Benjamin, Gesammelte Schriften, seven volumes (Frankfurt:. Walter Benjamin on the Mimetic Faculty - Free download as PDF File (.pdf), Text File (.txt) or view presentation slides online. Walter Benjamin on the Mimetic Faculty.
Works CitedAuerbach, Erich. Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in WesternLiterature. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1953.Benjamin, Walter. 'On the Mimetic Faculty,' Reflections. NewYork: Schocken Books, 1986.Bhabha, Homi. 'Of Mimicry and Man: The Ambivalence of ColonialDiscourse,' October, 28: (Spring, 1984).Caillois, Roger.
'Mimicry and Legendary Psychoasthenia,' Trans.John Shepley. October, 31: (Winter, 1984).Gebauer, Gunter and Christoph Wulf.
Mimesis: Culture-Art-Society. Trans.Don Reneau. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992.Hansen, Miriam.
'Benjamin and Cinema: Not a One-Way Street,' Critical Inquiry 25.2(Winter 1998).Jay, Martin. 'Unsympathetic Magic,' Visual AnthropologyReview 9.2 (Fall 1993).Koch, Gertrud. 'Mimesis and Bilderverbot,' Screen 34:3:(Autumn 1993).Taussig, Michael. Mimesis and Alterity.
NewYork: Routeledge, 1993.Sorbom, Goran. Mimesis and Art. Bonniers:Scandanavian University Books, 1966.Spariosu, Mihai, ed. Mimesis in Contemporary Theory. Philadelphia:John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1984.
NotesEdwards, Paul,ed. 'Mimesis,' The Encyclopedia of Philosophy, vol.5&6. (New York: Macmillian, 1967) 335.OxfordEnglish Dictionary OnlineOxford EnglishDictionary OnlineKelly, Michael,ed. 'Mimesis,' The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, vol.
(Oxford:Oxford University Press, 1998) 233.Taussig, Michael. Mimesisand Alterity. (New York: Routeledge, 1993) xiii.Kelly, 233.Edwards, 335.Kelly, 234.Durix, Jean-Pierre.
Mimesis,Genres and Post-Colonial Discourse: Deconstructing Magic Realism.(New York: Macmillian, 1998) 45.Kelly,234.Kelly,236.Kelly,234.In Benjamin's Onthe Mimetic Faculty, he postulates that the mimetic facultyis evident in all of man's 'higher functions' and that its historycan be defined both phylogenetically and ontogenetically. Children'sbehavior is a prime example of the manner in which mimetic behavioris not restricted to man imitating man - in which the 'child playsat being not only a shopkeeper or teacher but also a windmill anda train' (Walter Benjamin, Reflections, p. 333)Kelly,236.WalterBenjamin, Reflections.
(New York: Schocken Books, 1986)336.As opposedto the aestheticized version of mimesis found in Aristotle and, morerecently, Auerbach (see Erich Auerbach's Mimesis: The Representationof Reality in Western Literature (Princeton: Princeton UniversityPress, 1953).Taussig'stheory of mimesis is critiqued by Martin Jay in his review article, 'UnsympatheticMagic'.Spariosu,Mihai, ed. Mimesis in Contemporary Theory.
(Philadelphia:John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1984) 33.For a furtherexplication of 'magic mimesis' ( Dialectic of Enlightenment and AestheticTheory ) see Michael Cahn's 'Subversive Mimesis: Theodor Adornoand the Modern Impasse of Critique' in Spariosu's Mimesis inContemporary Theory.Spariosu,34.Spariosu,34.Kelly,236.Kelly,236.Kelly,236.Kelly,236.Kelly,237.Kelly,237.
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