Mimesis: Culture--Art--Society Book

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
1	Point of Departure	9
Pt. I	Mimesis as Imitation, the Production of Appearances, and Fiction	25
2	On the Origins of the Concept	27
3	Imitation, Illusion, Image (Plato)	31
4	The Break in the History of Mimesis: The Use of Writing	45
5	Poetic Mimesis (Aristotle)	53
Pt. II	Mimesis as Imitatio, the Expression of Power, and Literate Subjectivity	61
6	Mimesis as Imitatio	64
7	Poetics and Power in the Renaissance	76
8	Intertextuality, Fragmentation, Desire: Erasmus, Montaigne, Shakespeare	89
Pt. III	Mimesis as Enactment of the State	105
9	The Conflict Over History: The Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes	107
10	Mimesis as the Self-Representation of Political Power	120
11	Against Mimesis as Self-Representation	134
Pt. IV	From Imitation to the Constitution of the Creative Subject	151
12	Problems in the Imitation of Nature in the Eighteenth Century	155
13	Mimesis in the Theater of the Enlightenment	164
14	Diderot's Paradox of Acting	174
15	The Transformation of Mimesis in Lessing	186
16	Self-Mimesis (Rousseau)	206
Pt. V	Mimesis as the Principle of Worldmaking in the Novel and Society	217
17	The Mimetic Constitution of Social Reality	221
18	"Mimetic Desire" in the Work of Girard	233
19	Violence in Antiromantic Literature	240
20	The Mimesis of Violence (Girard)	255
Pt. VI	Mimesis as Entree to the World, Language, and Writing	267
21	Nonsensuous Similarity: On the Linguistic Anthropology of Benjamin	269
22	Vital Experience (Adorno)	281
23	The Between-Character of Mimesis (Derrida)	294
	Results	310
	Notes	321
	Bibliography	369
	Index	391