Mimezis i tipografije
Typographies and Mimesis

Summary/Abstract: This text investigates the notion of mimesis in the philosophy in the way proposed by the French thinker Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe. The concept of mimesis has always been perceived as artistic principle founded in imitation of nature. In is the reason why, starting from Plato, metaphysical philosophy has been criticizing the concept of mimesis as what produces something secondary, i.e. what only resembles nature. Thus conceived, the main function of mimesis was to split the similarity of the object of imitation and the product of imitation. If we perceive the object of imitation in the Antique sense, as the nature or essence the artist makes into presence then mimesis, by producing what is not similar to the object of imitation breaks the logic of identity and in that way always escapes its essence. Therefore, mimesis can not be determined as imitation because its essence is indeterminable, as the mimesis perseveringly escapes its own essence. The main function of mimes is not imitation but complement of the reality itself.

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