The Wild Card of Reading
On Paul De Man
Rodolphe Gasche(Author)
Harvard University Press
Published on 30. September 1998
Book
Hardback
336 pages
978-0-674-95295-9 (ISBN)
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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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge, Mass
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 160 mm
Weight
600 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-674-95295-9 (9780674952959)
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