The wild card of reading : on Paul de Man / Rodolphe Gasché.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gasché, Rodolphe, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

De Man, Paul--Criticism and interpretation.

De Man, Paul.

Criticism--History--20th century.

Criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 pages)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press, [1998]

Summary:

One of the most knowledgeable and provocative explicators of Paul de Man's writings, Rodolphe Gasché, 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. Gasché 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, Gasché 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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Acknowledgments

Contents

Abbreviations

Introduction

1 “Setzung” and “Übersetzung”

2 In-Difference to Philosophy

3 Apathetic Formalism

4 The Fallout of Reading

5 Giving to Read

6 Adding Oddities

Appendix: On the Edges

Notes

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Gasché, Rodolphe The Wild Card of Reading

ISBN:

9780674273757

0674273753

OCLC:

1286427775