Mimesis: Culture - Art - Society

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Point of Departure
	On Auerbach’s History of Mimesis
	Worldmaking and Social Pressure
	Literary and Social Mimesis
Part I, Mimesis as Imitation, the Production of Appearances, and Fiction
	2 On the Originsof the Concept
	3 Imitation, Illusion, Image (Plato)
		Similarity, Imitation, Education
		Appearance and Illusion
		Images as Appearances with the Character of Similarity
	4 The Break in the History of Mimesis. The Use of Writing
		Oral Poetry
		Between Oral and Literate Culture
	5 Poetic Mimesis (Aristotle)
Part II Mimesis as Imitatio, the Expression of Power, and Literate Subjectivity
	6 Mimesis as Imitatio
	7 Poetics and Powerin the Renaissance
	8 Intertextuality, Fragmentation, Desire. Erasmus, Montaigne, Shakespeare
		Erasmus
		Montaigne
		Shakespeare
Part III Mimesis as Enactment of the State
	9 The Conflict Over History. The Querelle desAnciens et des Modernes
		On the History of the Conflict
		Racine and Molière
		Structural Results
	10 Mimesis as the Self-Representationof Political Power
		The Portrait of the King
		On the Dramatic Practice of French Classicism
		The Representation of Daily Life in Comedy
	11 Against Mimesis as Self-Representation
		The Critique of Self-Representationin Madame de Lafayette
		Negative Anthropology
		Two Attempts to Transcend Mimesis
			Descartes
			Dutch Painting of theSeventeenth Century
Part IV From Imitation to the Constitution of the Creative Subject
	12 Problems in the Imitation of Nature in the Eighteenth Century
	13 Mimesis in the Theater of the Enlightenment
	14 Diderot’s Paradox of Acting
	15 The Transformation of Mimesis in Lessing
		Lessing’s Argument
		Mimesis of Time
		Reading and Time
	16 Self-Mimesis (Rousseau)
		Self-Formation
		Pedagogy and Seduction
Part V Mimesis as the Principle of Worldmaking in the Novel and Society
	17 The Mimetic Constitution of Social Reality
		Images of a Society
		Balzac’s Illusions perdues
	18 “Mimetic Desire” in the Work of Girard
	19 Violence in Antiromantic Literature
		The Authorial / and Others
		The Relationships of / and Other in the Novel
		Language, Violence, and the Internal Perspective
	20 The Mimesis of Violence (Girard)
Part VI Mimesis as Entrée to the World, Language, and Writing
	21 Nonsensuous Similarity On the Linguistic Anthropology of Benjamin
	22 Vital Experience (Adorno)
	23 The Between-Character of Mimesis (Derrida)
Results
	Historical Positions of Mimesis
	The Dimensions of Mimesis
Notes
	Chapter 1. Point of Departure
	Chapter 2. On the Origins of the Concept
	Chapter 3. Imitation, Illusion, Image (Plato)
	Chapter 4. The Break in the History of Mimesis
	Chapter 5. Poetic Mimesis (Aristotle)
	Chapter 6. Mimesis as Imitatio
	Chapter 7. Poetics and Power in the Renaissance
	Chapter 8. Intertextuality, Fragmentation, Desire
	Chapter 9. The Conflict Over History
	Chapter 10. Mimesis as the Self Representation of Political Power
	Chapter 11. Against Mimesisas Self-Representation
	Chapter 12. Problems In the Imitation ofNature in the Eighteenth Century
	Chapter 13. Mimesis in the Theaterof the Enlightenment
	Chapter 14. Diderot\'s Paradox of Acting
	Chapter 15. The Transformationof Mimesis in Lessing
	Chapter 16. Self-Mimesis (Rousseau)
	Chapter 17. The Mimetic Constitution of Social Reality
	Chapter 18. “Mimetic Desire\" in the Work of Girard
	Chapter 19. Violence in Antiromantic Literature
	Chapter 20. The Mimesis of Violence (Girard)
	Chapter 21. Nonsensuous Similarity
	Chapter 22. Vital Experience (Adorno)
	Chapter 23. The Between-Characterof Mimesis (Derrida)
	Results
Bibliography