Episodi
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Episodi mancanti?
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This papers analyses the diverse theories of animal mimicry that spread around 1900 and argues that these theories should be considered not so much as a step in the development of Darwinism, but as part of the history of media and as being engaged in the search for the ‘perfect medium’ in this period.
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This paper introduces the conference subject from an interdisciplinary perspective. Manuel Mühlbacher gives an overview of the question ranging from Aristoteles’ thesis that human mimesis involves understanding to echoes of the same line of argument in eighteenth-century philosophy. Katerina Krčal traces the shift of the perspective in the human-animal divide since Darwin’s theory of evolution. Antonio Chemotti shifts the focus to the question of animal mimesis in music from the Middle Ages and discusses the role animals play in origin myths of music.
