1. The Need for Paradigm Change -- 2. Durkheim's Dangerous Idea -- 3. Kinds of Representing -- 4. The Dream of Human Life Platonic, Sophistic and Christian Imagery in Michelangelo's Art -- 5. Impossible Representatives -- 6. Manet's Olympia -- 7. Duchmap's Intervention -- 8. Greenberg's Notion of Competence -- 9. Lucien Freud's Figuration -- 10. Gerhardt Richter -- 11. After Heidegger: Notes Toward a Unified Ontology