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To an extent that has been underappreciated, Mimesis also reflects on Auerbach’s own complicity with anti-Semitic Western ethnocentrism. Figlerowicz makes this point by uncovering an unexpected intertext for the book’s second chapter, “Fortunata,” which narrates the birth of figural thinking. She reads this chapter in conjunction with earlier versions of the ending of Mimesis preserved in Auerbach’s Istanbul lectures. The unexpected intertext of “Fortunata” is a then-recent bestseller about Nero’s persecution of the Christian, Quo Vadis? (1896) by the Nobel Prize winner Henryk Sienkiewicz, in which Peter and Petronius feature as major characters and as each other’s doubles. Reading Mimesis through this lens helps one see that it constructs, around such spectacles of violence, a Vichian account of Western culture’s foundational, recurrent brutality.
SPEAKER
Marta Figlerowicz, Yale University
MODERATOR
Hanna Engelmeier, KWI
Information on participating / attending:
Participation online via Zoom. Register with Emily Beyer via emily.beyer@kwi-nrw.de with subject line „Participation via ZOOM“ by 13 November, 2022.
Date:
11/14/2022 16:00 - 11/14/2022
Registration deadline:
11/13/2022
Event venue:
Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities Essen (KWI)
Goethestr. 31
45128 Essen
Nordrhein-Westfalen
Germany
Target group:
Scientists and scholars
Email address:
Relevance:
international
Subject areas:
Cultural sciences, History / archaeology, Philosophy / ethics, Social studies
Types of events:
Presentation / colloquium / lecture
Entry:
09/26/2022
Sender/author:
Miriam Wienhold
Department:
Pressestelle
Event is free:
yes
Language of the text:
English
URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event72565
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