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

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

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...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (208 p.)
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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

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