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| Imitation: Imitation is the act of copying the behavior or appearance of another person or thing. It is a natural and important part of human development. See also Stages of Development._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Ken Jowitt on Imitation - Dictionary of Arguments
Krastev I 10 Imitation/Jowitt/Krastev: As political scientist Ken Jowitt has pointed out, replicas of Versailles were built in Germany, Poland and Russia, French manners were copied, and French became the language of far-flung elites. In the nineteenth century, it was the turn of the British parliament to become the focus of perfunctory and ornamental imitation, while ‘after World War II a number of Stalinist regimes were created in Eastern Europe, from Albania to Lithuania, all stamped with identically ugly Stalinist architecture – political and physical.’(1) . In the post-Cold War world, ‘learning English, displaying copies of the Federalist Papers, wearing Armani suits, having elections’ – and, to recall Jowitt’s favourite example, ‘playing golf’(2) – enable non-Western elites not only to put their powerful Western interlocutors at ease, but also to make economic, political and military claims upon them. 1. Ken Jowitt, ‘Communism, Democracy, and Golf’, Hoover Digest (30 January 2001). 2. Ibid._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Jowitt, Ken Krastev I Ivan Krastev Stephen Holmes The Light that Failed: A Reckoning London 2019 |
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