Abstract

BARTOLOME-RUIZ, Castor M. M.. FROM IMITATIVE ALIENATION TO MIMETIC POTENTIALITY: PLATO AND ADORNO, ARISTOTLE AND BENJAMIN. Univ. philos. [online]. 2018, vol.35, n.71, pp.145-173. ISSN 0120-5323.  https://doi.org/10.11144/javeriana.uph35-71.aipm.

This essay defends that mimesis is an inherently agonistic and paradoxical human practice. The divergent views on mimesis by Plato and Aristotle, as well as by Adorno and Benjamin, are the philosophical manifestation of an agonistic tension of human mimesis that is not resolved in the ex clusive truth of one of the positions, but remains as a permanent possibil ity to create alternative paths in history.

Keywords : mimesis; Plato; Aristotle; Adorno; Benjamin; agonism.

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