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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Balfour, Ian (Ian Grant), Contributor.

Chase, Cynthia, Contributor.

Guyer, Sara, Contributor.

De Man, Paul, Contributor.

Mieszkowski, Jan, Contributor.

Plotnitsky, Arkady, Contributor.

Redfield, Marc, Contributor.

Redfield, Marc, Editor.

Terada, Rei, Contributor.

Warminski, Andrzej, Contributor.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (236 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2022]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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 academy seems driven to characterize "de Manian deconstruction," again and again, as dead. Such reiterated acts of exorcism testify that de Man's ghost has in fact never been laid to rest, and for good reason: a dispassionate survey of recent trends in critical theory and practice reveals that de Man's influence is considerable and ongoing. His name still commands an aura of excitement, even danger: it stands for the pressure of a text and a "theory" that resists easy assimilation or containment. The essays in this volume analyze and evaluate aspects of de Man's strange, powerful legacy. The opening contributions focus on his great theme of "reading"; subsequent chapters explore his complex notions of "history," "materiality," and "aesthetic ideology," and examine his institutional role as a teacher and, more generally, as a charismatic figure associated with the fortunes of "theory." Because the notion of legacy immediately raises questions about the institutional transmission of thought, the collection concludes with two appendixes offering documentary aids to scholars interested in de Man as an institutional presence and pedagogue. The first appendix lists the courses taught by de Man at Yale; the second makes available a previously unpublished document, almost certainly authored by de Man: a course proposal for the undergraduate course "Literature Z" that de Man and Geoffrey Hartman began teaching at Yale in the spring of 1977.

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

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Mrz 2022)

ISBN:

0-8232-9202-9

OCLC:

1350685844