Art, Mimesis, Individualty

In #52 of World as Will and Representation, Schopenhauer asserts that "music is by no means like the other arts, namely a copy of the Ideas, but a copy of the will itself."  In #30 he characterizes a Platonic Idea as an "archetype . . . to its copies."  In #36, he attributes to artistic genius an "ability for . . . contemplation" that enables one "to repeat by deliberate art what has been apprehended."  Quite plainly, Mimesis is fundamental to his concept of the Representation of Art, as it is to Aristotle's seminal Aesthetic theory, a well-established legacy that Schopenhauer tries to circumvent in #36.  Thus, the Mimetic analysis of Representation, previously proposed here, is applicable to Schopenhauer's Aesthetic theory, which means, that, so, too, is the entailed demonstration that Aesthetic experience does not effect a detachment from individuality, despite his ambitions for it.