1. The Republic of Plato, trans. Francis MacDonald Cornford (1941; New York and London: Oxford University Press, 1945, rpt. 1968), 80. My thanks to Jean Bessiere and to Editions Honore Champion in Paris and Slakine for permission to reprint with revisions Jonathan Hart, “Between Seeing and Making: The Theory and Poetics of Jean Bessiere,” Philippe Daros et Miceala Symington (eds.), Épistémologie du fait littéraire et rénovation des paradigmes critiques. Autour de l’oeuvre de Jean Bessière (Paris: Honore Champion, collection “Colloques, congres et conferences-Litterature comparee”, 2011), 95–201. This chapter attempts to bridge the view of making between that in the twentieth and that in the twenty-first century.
2. See David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature, ed. L.A. Selby-Bigge (Oxford, 1928), 67–73;
3. Paul de Man, Allegories of Reading (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1979) and his Blindness and Insight: Essays in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticism (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1983);
4. Jacques Derrida, Writing and Difference, trans. Alan Bass (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1978), 293–95; for the original, see L’Écriture et la différence (Paris, 1967).
5. Aristotle’s Poetics, trans. George Walley, ed. John Baxter and Patrick Atherton (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1997), 87; see also 87–91.