Mimesis and Reason : Habermas's Political Philosophy

by Miller, Gregg Daniel

• ISBN13: 9781438437408
• ISBN10: 1438437404
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-07-02
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Summary

Excavates the experiential structure of Habermas's communicative action.

Author Biography

Gregg Daniel Miller is Lecturer at the University of Washington.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Reason and Mimesis	p. 9
The Postmetaphysical Condition of Reason	p. 10
Mimesis	p. 14
Mimesis Against Disenchantment	p. 20
Mimesis as Re-Enchantment?	p. 28
Toward a Reconstruction of Communicative Action	p. 33
Mimesis in Communicative Action: Habermas and Plato	p. 35
Modernity and its Anti-Mimetic Cogito	p. 36
Divine Mimesis	p. 41
Prosaic Mimesis	p. 49
Poetic Mimesis	p. 53
The Manner of Mimesis	p. 56
The Grammar of Mimesis	p. 60
Toward the Affective Bond of Understanding	p. 63
The Subject in Communicative Action: Habermas and George Herbert Mead	p. 69
Two Phases of the Self: I and Me	p. 71
The Individuated Self	p. 76
From Play to Game	p. 81
From Image to Symbol	p. 86
I the Artist	p. 90
Mead's Anti-mimesis	p. 94
Habermas's Intersubjective Ego	p. 100
The Experience of Mimesis: Habermas and Walter Benjamin	p. 109
Weberian Pneuma	p. 113
Experience	p. 115
Lament for Experience (Erfabrung) Lost	p. 117
Shock and Wisdom in Postauratic Experience	p. 121
Postauratic Experience as Mimesis in Language	p. 124
Habermas's Benjaminian Experience	p. 129
Conclusions	p. 135
Coda: Habermas and the Affective Bond of Understanding	p. 137
Notes	p. 143
Bibliography	p. 169
Index	p. 183
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