Valery Podoroga: 'Mimesis. The Analytic Anthropology of Literature'
In: Apparatus. Film, Media and Digital Cultures of Central and Eastern Europe, 2023-02-01, Heft 17
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How does one approach a book of a philosopher who insists on being an anthropologist, despite all indications to the contrary? How does one understand this investment in creating and maintaining a terminological façade that embraces a very different kind of structure within? And what is the point of this façade in the first place? Valery Podoroga’s volume under review suggests a plausible answer to these questions – mimesis, that is to say, an ability to imitate; a capacity to appropriate; a skill to uproot, which is coupled with a desire to transpose conventions and approaches from the place of their origin to a new location. Speaking about Voltaire’s works, Erich Auerbach in his foundational study Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (1946) succinctly expressed the gist of the mimetic faculty: “Voltaire arranges reality so that he can use it for his purposes” (p. 411). Mimesis, then, could be seen as a purposefully re-arranged reality, a reality under control, a reality with a maximized use-value. How and to what purpose do these operations of re-arranging, controlling, and maximizing (the value of) reality present themselves in Podoroga’s work?
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Valery Podoroga: 'Mimesis. The Analytic Anthropology of Literature'
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Oushakine, Serguei A. |
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Zeitschrift: | Apparatus. Film, Media and Digital Cultures of Central and Eastern Europe, 2023-02-01, Heft 17 |
Veröffentlichung: | Natascha Drubek, 2023 |
Medientyp: | academicJournal |
ISSN: | 2365-7758 (print) |
DOI: | 10.17892/app.2023.00017.326 |
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