| Title: | Political Theory vs. Political Mimesis in The Early-Modern Literary Representation of Decision-Making |
| Author: | Caius Dobrescu |
| Publication: | Journal of Romanian Literary Studies, 2, p. 19-26 |
| e-ISSN: | 2248-3004 |
| Publisher: | Arhipelag XXI Press |
| Place: | Tîrgu-Mureş |
| Year: | 2012 |
| Abstract: | Departing from a replicative understanding of mimesis, the paper re-describes the notion as the simulation, under controlled circumstances, of character-building explorative and dubitative experiences. The simulation-based ethical mimesis is used as a pedagogical instrument on the one hand by the early-Renaissance dynamic political culture, and on the other hand by the late-medieval spiritual practice of the imitatio Christi. The interaction between these two patterns generates, in the early modernity, complex fictional structures articulating the simulation of factual uncertainty with the simulation of ethical doubt. In order to make them more apparent, these structures are: a) followed in their close association with the inherently dramatic context of the representation of/training for political decision-making; b) contrasted against the emergence of the mental habits that support the rhetoric of the modern political theory and ideology. The nature and consequences of the polarization between political theory and the fictional political mimesis are exposed in the work of John Milton. |
| Language: | English |
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