Mimesis and Reason: Habermas's Political Philosophy -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 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 -- Chapter 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 -- Chapter 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's Intersubjective Ego -- Chapter 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 -- Bibliography -- Index.