Published: 2019-01-181

Mimesis and Anthropos – On the Subject of Compulsion to Imitate. Dawkins – Tarde – Girard

Dobrosława Wężowicz-Ziółkowska
Humanities and Natural Sciences
Section: articles
https://doi.org/10.31648/hip.2637

Abstract

Memetics is one of contemporary theories of culture. It postulates that the fundamental mechanism of replicating non-genetic information is imitation (Dawkins) and thus social life and culture exist as a result of our minds’ susceptibility to the units of imitation, known as memes. This article presents a critical synthesis of the stance memeticians take on human mimetism, and through exploration of other concepts (philosophical, sociological, anthropological, psychological and neurobiological) reinforces memetics’ basic premise that human beings are mimetic animals.

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Dawkins, Tarde, Girard, memes, mimesis, anthropos

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Wężowicz-Ziółkowska, D. (2019). Mimesis and Anthropos – On the Subject of Compulsion to Imitate. Dawkins – Tarde – Girard. Humanities and Natural Sciences, (24), 361–373. https://doi.org/10.31648/hip.2637

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