The Political Archive of Paul de Man : : Property, Sovereignty and the Theotropic / / Martin McQuillan.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: McQuillan, Martin,
• MitwirkendeR: Balibar, Etienne,; Barker, Stephen,; Benn Michaels, Walter,; Burt, E. S.,; Cohen, Tom,; Mailloux, Steven,; Man, Paul de,; Mapp, Nigel,; McQuillan, Martin,; Miller, J. Hillis,; Newmark, Kevin,; Obodiac, Erin,; Redfield, Marc,; Warminski, Andrzej,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (208 p.)

Re-reads a major theorist in terms of the current crisis in sovereignty and global capitalTaking de Man’s recently published manuscript Textual Allegories as a point of departure, 13 experts, themselves significant voices in contemporary literary theory, revisit de Man’s account of Rousseau and what he calls a ‘Theotropic Allegory’ (the second to last step before ‘Political Allegory’, on the road toward a general theory of Textual Allegory). They frame de Man’s readings of Rousseau in a ‘post-theoretical’ landscape concerned with political theology, occupied with the transformation of the western model of sovereignty, and faced with the apparent collapse of the capitalist global contract. The volume is framed by an introduction by leading de Man scholar, Martin McQuillan, and concludes with an original and previously unpublished text by Paul de Man.Key Features:Presents the first published responses to a recently published de Man manuscriptRelates de Man’s work to key topics in contemporary TheoryOutstanding list of contributorsIncludes an original unpublished text by Paul de Man on Nietzsche

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction Broken Promises: Rousseau, de Man and Watergate -- 1. Lovence in Rousseau’s Julie ou la Nouvelle Héloïse -- 2. Reading Spectacles in Rousseau’s Letter to d’Alembert -- 3. The Utter Misery of the Human Mind: Apotropaic and Theotropic in de Man’s Rousseau -- 4. Rhetoric and Rausch: de Man on Nietzsche on Value and Style -- 5. Theotropic Logology: J. Hillis Miller, Paul de Man and Kenneth Burke -- 6. Normativity, Materiality and Inequality: The Politics of the Letter in Paul de Man -- 7. Inscribing the Political: Paul de Man and the Wild Art of Letter Writing -- 8. Mistake in Paul de Man: Violent Reading and Theotropic Violence -- 9. Lightstruck: ‘Hegel on the Sublime’ -- 10. De Man vs. ‘Deconstruction’: or, Who, Today, Speaks for the Anthropocene? -- 11. Paul de Man at Work: What Good is an Archive? -- 12. DNA: de Man’s Nucleic Archive -- 13. Sovereign Debt Crisis: Paul de Man and the Privatization of Thought -- Appendix: Nietzsche I: Rhetoric + Metaphysics -- Index