The wild card of reading : on Paul de Man
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The wild card of reading : on Paul de Man
Harvard University Press, 1998
- : cloth
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-303) and index
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: cloth ISBN 9780674952959
Description
The text demonstrates the systematic coherence of Paul de Man's work, insisting that he continues to merit close attention despite his notoriously difficult and obscure style. Rodolphe Gasche shows that de Man's "reading" centres on a dimension of the texts that is irreducible to any possible meaning, a dimension characterized by the "absolutely singular". Given that de Man and Derrida are both deconstructionalists, Gasche differentiates between the two by emphasizing Derrida's primary interest in "writing" and postulates that the best way to come to terms with de Man's works is to "read" them athwart the writings of Kant, Fichte, Hegel, Heidegger, and Derrida. He shows his respect for "immanent logic" of de Man's thought - which he lays out in detail - while revealing his uneasiness at the oddness of that thought and its consequences.
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: pbk ISBN 9780674952966
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One of the most knowledgeable and provocative explicators of Paul de Man's writings, Rodolphe Gasche, a philosopher by training, demonstrates for the first time the systematic coherence of the critic's work, insisting that de Man continues to merit close attention despite his notoriously difficult and obscure style. Gasche shows that de Man's "reading" centers on a dimension of the texts that is irreducible to any possible meaning, a dimension characterized by the "absolutely singular."
Given that de Man and Derrida are both termed deconstructionists, Gasche differentiates between the two by emphasizing Derrida's primary interest in "writing," and postulates that the best way to come to terms with de Man's works is to "read" them athwart the writings of Kant, Fichte, Hegel, Heidegger, and Derrida. He shows his respect for the "immanent logic" of de Man's thought--which he lays out in great detail--while revealing his uneasiness at the oddness of that thought and its consequences.
Table of Contents
Abbreviations Introduction "Setzung" and "Ubersetzung" In-Difference to Philosophy Apathetic Formalism The Fallout of Reading Giving to Read Adding Oddities Appendix: On the Edges Notes Index
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