Mimesis and Reason, livre ebook

Complicating the standard interpretation of Habermas as a proceduralist, Mimesis and Reason uncovers the role that mimesis, or imitation, plays as a genuinely political force in communicative action. Through a penetrating examination of Habermas's use of themes and concepts from Plato, George Herbert Mead, and Walter Benjamin, Gregg Daniel Miller reconstructs Habermas's theory to reveal a new, postmetaphysical articulation of reason that lays the groundwork for new directions in political theory.
Preface
Introduction
1. Reason and Mimesis
I. The Postmetaphysical Condition of Reason
II. Mimesis
III. Mimesis Against Disenchantment
IV. Mimesis as Re-Enchantment?
V. Toward a Reconstruction of Communicative Action
2. Mimesis in Communicative Action: Habermas and Plato
I. Modernity and its Anti-Mimetic Cogito
II. Divine Mimesis
III. Prosaic Mimesis
IV. Poetic Mimesis
V. The Manner of Mimesis
VI. The Grammar of Mimesis
VII. Toward the Affective Bond of Understanding
3. The Subject in Communicative Action: Habermas and George Herbert Mead
I. Two Phases of the Self: I and Me
II. The Individuated  Self
III. From Play to Game
IV. From Image to Symbol
V. I the Artist
VI. Mead’s Anti-mimesis
VII. Habermas’ Intersubjective Ego
4. The Experience of Mimesis: Habermas and Walter Benjamin
I. Weberian Pneuma
II. Experience
III. Lament for Experience (Erfahrung) Lost
IV. Shock and Wisdom in Postauratic Experience
V. Postauratic Experience as Mimesis in Language
VI. Habermas’s Benjaminian Experience
VII. Conclusions
Coda: Habermas and the Affective Bond of Understanding
Notes