{"id":10018,"date":"2022-09-12T11:32:24","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T09:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging-v2.kulturwissenschaften.de\/?post_type=veranstaltung&#038;p=10018"},"modified":"2022-10-27T12:57:17","modified_gmt":"2022-10-27T10:57:17","slug":"lecture-auerbachs-mimesis-as-an-anthropology-of-violence","status":"publish","type":"veranstaltung","link":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/veranstaltung\/lecture-auerbachs-mimesis-as-an-anthropology-of-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Lecture: Auerbach&#8217;s\u00a0Mimesis\u00a0as an Anthropology of Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Figlerowicz argues that Erich Auerbach\u2019s <em>Mimesis<\/em>\u00a0depicts figural thinking and ritual violence perpetuated against vulnerable, minority populations as inextricable from each other. To an extent that has been underappreciated,\u00a0<em>Mimesis<\/em> also reflects on Auerbach\u2019s own complicity with anti-Semitic Western ethnocentrism.<\/p>\n<p>Figlerowicz makes this point by uncovering an unexpected intertext for the book\u2019s second chapter, \u201cFortunata,\u201d which narrates the birth of figural thinking. She reads this chapter in conjunction with earlier versions of the ending of <em>Mimesis<\/em>\u00a0preserved in Auerbach\u2019s Istanbul lectures. The unexpected intertext of \u201cFortunata\u201d is a then-recent bestseller about Nero\u2019s persecution of the Christian,\u00a0<em>Quo Vadis?\u00a0<\/em>(1896) by the Nobel Prize winner Henryk Sienkiewicz, in which Peter and Petronius feature as major characters and as each other\u2019s doubles.<\/p>\n<p>Reading\u00a0<em>Mimesis<\/em>\u00a0through this lens helps one see that it constructs, around such spectacles of violence, a Vichian account of Western culture\u2019s foundational, recurrent brutality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","event_category":[460],"class_list":["post-10018","veranstaltung","type-veranstaltung","status-publish","hentry","event_category-events-in-english"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/veranstaltung\/10018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/veranstaltung"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/veranstaltung"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"event_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_category?post=10018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}