Miller Mimesis and Reason

Habermas's Political Philosophy
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4384-3741-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 199 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Excavates the experiential structure of Habermas’s communicative action.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Miller, Gregg Daniel

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Gregg Daniel Miller is Lecturer at the University of Washington.