“Aliquid pro aliquo”: Ortega's perspectivism and Girard's theory of mimetic desire. A reading hypothesis between poetics and politics

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https://doi.org/10.63487/reo.107

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The theme of the relationship between literature and politics raises different and interesting questions, including the one about “fiction”. José Ortega y Gasset and René Girard, among others, have focused on this theme. From their reflections, due to the evidence of some parallels, an hypothesis of interpretation can be advanced according to which the Girardian theory of mimetic desire would be rooted in the interpretative potential of prospectivism, as understood by the Spanish philosopher. In close and binding connection with an absolutely new concept of realism, which would represent its active, generating principle. The two authors ultimately agree on the fact that fiction has a character that is anything but extrinsic or merely decorative, since it aims to create a space for the revelation of a meaning usually hidden and deeper than reality itself.

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Constanza Ciscato, Universidad de Padua

Doctor of Philosophy in Law from the University of Padua, she held a postdoctoral contract in the Department of Historical and Political Studies at the same university, as well as a research grant funded by the Mariano Rumor Foundation in Vicenza. She currently teaches at the University of Padua. Her lines of research focus on natural law and the study of modern and contemporary political-legal thought. Her publications include: Spinoza e la Stoà. Per una fondazione ontologica del diritto naturale (2006); Natura, persona, diritto. Profili del tomismo giuridico nel Novecento (2013); "Individuo, potere e obbligo di obbedienza alla legge. La critica di H. Spencer alla «grande superstizione politica»“ (Individual, Power, and the Obligation to Obey the Law: H. Spencer's Critique of the ”Great Political Superstition“), in Archivio Storico del Sannio (2019); and ”«guerra giusta» alla «guerra impossibile»: il percorso di Giorgio La Pira tra diritto e politica“ (From ”Just War“ to ”Impossible War": Giorgio La Pira's Journey Between Law and Politics), in Il Pensiero Politico, I (2020).

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2022-05-01 — Updated on 2022-05-01

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Ciscato, C. (2022). “Aliquid pro aliquo”: Ortega’s perspectivism and Girard’s theory of mimetic desire. A reading hypothesis between poetics and politics. Revista De Estudios Orteguianos, (44), 187–200. https://doi.org/10.63487/reo.107

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No. 44 (2022)

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