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
Gregg Daniel Miller is Lecturer at the University of Washington.
"This reconstruction of Habermas is sure to be met with hostility and will inevitably boil the blood of any card-carrying Habermasian ... the book is a highly original addition to the growing body of literature that recognises the brilliance of Habermas, yet seeks to move past perceived problems or tensions within aspects of his thought ... This book should enliven debate concerning the future of critical theory, and more specifically its relationship with aesthetic theory." - Political Studies Review "Moving beyond the impasse of mimesis versus communicative rationality, an alternative that pitted Adorno against Habermas, Gregg Daniel Miller opens up a new vista in the continuing effort to develop a viable Critical Theory for the twenty-first century. Drawing on the insights of Mead and Benjamin, he imaginatively and persuasively establishes a point d'appui for rational critique that extends well beyond wan proceduralism without regressing to a discredited metaphysics. The result is a remarkable first book, which is less about the past of Critical Theory than its future." - Martin Jay, Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley
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