Augustine of Hippo and Mimetic Desire.: An Interpretation of the Pear-theft Episode (Conf. II, IV 9)

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The theft that St. Augustine declares to have committed at the age of sixteen in his Confessions has been the object of various interpretations. Here, through the treatment of some of them and of the sources on which they are based, a new reading is proposed which takes as its fundament a viewpoint...

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Autor principal: Alfonzo, Bruno
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Publicado: Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires 2022
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Agustín
Confensiones
Girard
Mímesis
Deseo
Augustine
Confessions
Mimesis
Desire
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spelling I28-R145-11469_oai2025-11-17 Alfonzo, Bruno 2022-11-08 The theft that St. Augustine declares to have committed at the age of sixteen in his Confessions has been the object of various interpretations. Here, through the treatment of some of them and of the sources on which they are based, a new reading is proposed which takes as its fundament a viewpoint not yet delineated in Augustinian studies. Through the application of the hermeneutical perspective proposed some decades ago by the French historian René Girard, it is seen that the pear-theft story constitutes an episode akin to the message revealed by the Scriptures concerning the nature of human desire. The exegesis developed, while taking into account previous interpretations, distances itself from some of their fundaments, in order to deepen their scope and demonstrate that the episode in question, in conformity with the Christian message, reveals the conflictive character of the mimetic nature of desire. El robo que san Agustín declara haber cometido a sus dieciséis años en sus Confesiones ha sido objeto de interpretaciones de diversa índole. Aquí, mediante el tratamiento de algunas de ellas y de los textos fuente en los que se apoyan, se propone una nueva lectura que toma como fundamento una óptica aún no delineada en los estudios agustinianos. A través de la aplicación de la perspectiva hermenéutica propuesta hace algunas décadas por el historiador francés René Girard, se advierte que el relato del robo de las peras constituye un episodio afín al mensaje revelado por las Escrituras en torno a la naturaleza del deseo humano. Se elabora una exégesis que, tomando en consideración interpretaciones precedentes, se distancia a su vez de algunos de sus fundamentos, con el fin de profundizar su alcance y demostrar que el episodio en cuestión, en conformidad con el mensaje cristiano, revela el carácter conflictivo de la naturaleza mimética del deseo. application/pdf https://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/petm/article/view/11469 10.34096/petm.v43.n2.11469 spa Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires https://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/petm/article/view/11469/10931 Patristica et Mediævalia; Vol. 43 Núm. 2 (2022); 5-24 2683-9636 Agustín Confensiones Girard Mímesis Deseo Augustine Confessions Girard Mimesis Desire Augustine of Hippo and Mimetic Desire.: An Interpretation of the Pear-theft Episode (Conf. II, IV 9) Agustín de Hipona y el deseo mimético: Una interpretación del episodio del robo de las peras (Conf. II, IV 9) info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion https://repositoriouba.sisbi.uba.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=patris&d=11469_oai
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Augustine of Hippo and Mimetic Desire.: An Interpretation of the Pear-theft Episode (Conf. II, IV 9)
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description The theft that St. Augustine declares to have committed at the age of sixteen in his Confessions has been the object of various interpretations. Here, through the treatment of some of them and of the sources on which they are based, a new reading is proposed which takes as its fundament a viewpoint not yet delineated in Augustinian studies. Through the application of the hermeneutical perspective proposed some decades ago by the French historian René Girard, it is seen that the pear-theft story constitutes an episode akin to the message revealed by the Scriptures concerning the nature of human desire. The exegesis developed, while taking into account previous interpretations, distances itself from some of their fundaments, in order to deepen their scope and demonstrate that the episode in question, in conformity with the Christian message, reveals the conflictive character of the mimetic nature of desire.
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title_fullStr Augustine of Hippo and Mimetic Desire.: An Interpretation of the Pear-theft Episode (Conf. II, IV 9)
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