The Place of Mimesis and the Apocalyptic: Toward a Topology of the "Far and Near"

Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 20:1-24 (2013)
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“In true love one must see oneself in the absolutely other. This must mean I would die in me to live in you. At the foundation of what I have named the self-consciousness of the absolute nothing, in which I am myself through the fact that in my foundations I see the absolutely other or, better, a Thou: here must lie the meaning of love. In my view the agape of Christianity has this meaning. Agape is not a yearning, but rather much more a sacrifice, the love of God and not the love of a human. This love comes down from God to humans rather than rising from humans up into God.... Just as Augustine puts it: I am myself through the love of God, i.e., through the love of God I am truly I.”2 The late Jesuit ..

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