1st Edition
Paul de Man (Routledge Revivals) Deconstruction and the Critique of Aesthetic Ideology
By Christopher Norris
Copyright 1988
244 Pages
by
Routledge
244 Pages
by
Routledge
244 Pages
by
Routledge
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Paul de Man - literary critic, literary philosopher, "American deconstructionist" - changed the landscape of criticism through his rigorous theories and writings. Upon its original publication in 1988, Christopher Norris' book was the first full-length introduction to de Man, a reading that offers a much-needed corrective to the pattern of extreme antithetical response which marked the initial... Read more
1. Allegories of Disenchantment: Poetry and Politics in de Man's Early Essays 2. De Man and the Critique of Romantic Ideology 3. Deconstruction and Philosophy: Some Analytic Bearings 4. Aesthetic Ideology and the Ethics of Reading: Miller and de Man 5. Against a new Pragmatism: Law Deconstruction and the Interests of Theory 6. "The Temptation of Permanence" 7. Postscript: On de Man's Early Writings in Le Soir
Biography
Christopher Norris
'His grasp of the historical and philosophical dimensions of the styles and arguments of contemporary literary theory is quite extraordinary and illuminating.' - N. Lukacher, University of Illinois at Chicago
