This paper uses a trans-disciplinary approach to achieve a fresh perspective on the relationship between the notions of “reality”, “mimesis” and “learning” as these arise in the theoretical proposal made by Gunter Gebauer and Christoph Wulf. More specifically, the paper highlights the properly “ethical” and “political” tenor that is ascribable to a such an interpretation of mimesis and that can take charge of its irreducible ambivalence: of the power of mimesis to express a practical-performative knowledge that, precisely by virtue of its always sensitively-embodied character, qualifies itself for its constitutive suspension between “repetition” and “innovation”, and between “identity” and “difference”.