Diálogos impertinentes: a mímesis de Luiz Costa Lima e a filosofia da diferença

Abstract

This article aims to study the strengths of Luiz Costa Lima’s theoretical project, in order to analyze how the debate on mimesis, created by him, participates in contemporary epistemological questioning, with a decisive contribution to thinking about the modes and conditions with which literary discourse can be enunciated in modernity. The starting point is the dialogue carried out by the Brazilian critic with post-structuralist thinking, more specifically, the two essays he elaborated regarding Gilles Deleuze’s anti-representational philosophy. The hypothesis is that, considered under the logic of claiming difference, understood either in a political-cultural prism or in an ontological prism, independent but complementary, Costa Lima’s literary anthropology does not reveal itself as an isolated project in the contemporary research scene that has literature as its central object.