Legacies of Paul de Man / / ed. by Marc Redfield.

More than twenty years after his death, Paul de Man remains a haunting presence in the American academy. His name is linked not just with "deconstruction," but with a "deconstruction in America" that continues to disturb the scholarly and pedagogical institution it inhabits. The...

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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (236 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Legacies of Paul de Man
  • I . Reading
  • Double-Take: Reading de Man and Derrida Writing on Tropes
  • Reading, Begging, Paul de Man
  • II. Reading History
  • History against Historicism, Formal Matters, and the Event of the Text: de Man with Benjamin
  • Discontinuous Shifts: History Reading History
  • III. Institutions of Pedagogy
  • ‘‘At the Far End of This Ongoing Enterprise . . .’’
  • Professing Literature: John Guillory’s Misreading of Paul de Man
  • IV. Theory, Materiality, and the Aesthetic
  • Thinking Singularity with Immanuel Kant and Paul de Man: Aesthetics, Epistemology, History, and Politics
  • Seeing Is Reading
  • Appendix 1 Courses Taught by Paul de Man during the Yale Era
  • Appendix 2 ‘‘Course Proposal: Literature Z’’
  • Contributors
  • Notes
  • Index