In Search of Coherence: Introducing Marcel Jousse’s Anthropology of Mimism - Softcover

Jousse, Marcel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 149829796X ISBN 13: 9781498297967

Publisher: Pickwick Publications, 2016

Synopsis

Marcel Jousse's anthropology of mimism is a plea for a change of civilization. Our present-day Western civilization has decomposed the human being into a mind-soul-spirit and a body, put writing as the apex of this human's expression, and set this human as the conqueror of his world. Jousse pleads for a threefold re-composition: a human compound, expressing himself as a whole, and in exchange with a cosmos that he mimes and infuses with consciousness. What is needed is an evolution, neither progressive nor regressive, but an evolution in depth, reconnecting the new with the old--in short, coherence.

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About the Authors

Edgard Sienaert is Honorary Research Fellow in the Centre for Africa Studies of the University of the Free State, South Africa. He edited and translated Marcel Jousse's published works into English and is the author of a study, in French, of Jousse's unpublished 1931-57 lectures program: "In the beginning was mimism. A holistic reading of Marcel Jousse's oral lectures."

Edgard Sienaert is Honorary Research Fellow in the Centre for Africa Studies of the University of the Free State, South Africa. He is the author of two books on Marcel Jousse's anthropology, based on the unpublished 1931-1957 lectures: In the Beginning Was Mimism: A Holistic Reading of Marcel Jousse's Oral Lectures (in French), and In Search of Coherence: Introducing Marcel Jousse's Anthropology of Mimism (Pickwick, 2016).


Werner H. Kelber is the Isla Carroll and Percy E. Turner Professor Emeritus of Biblical Studies at Rice University. His publications include Imprints, Voiceprints, and Footprints of Memory (2013) and The Oral and Written Gospel (1983).

Edition details

• Publisher: Pickwick Publications
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 149829796X
• ISBN 13: 9781498297967
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 322
• Editor: Sienaert Edgard