The political archive of Paul de Man: property, sovereignty, and the theotropic
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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press ©2012
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction : broken promises : Rousseau, de Man and Watergate / Martin McQuillan -- Lovence in Rousseau's Julie ou la nouvelle Héloïse / Etienne Balibar -- Reading spectacles in Rousseau's Letter to d'Alembert / E.S. Burt -- The utter misery of the human mind : apotropaic and theotropic in de Man's Rousseau / Nigel Mapp -- Rhetoric and Rausch : de Man on Nietzsche on value and style / Stephen Barker -- Theotropic logology : J. Hillis Miller, Paul de Man and Kenneth Burke / Steven Mailloux -- Normativity, materiality and inequality : the politics of the letter in Paul de Man / Walter Benn Michaels -- Inscribing the political : Paul de Man and the wild art of letter writing / Kevin Newmark -- Mistake in Paul de Man : violent reading and theotropic violence / Marc Redfield -- Lightstruck : "Hegel on the sublime" / Andrzej Warminski -- De Man vs. "deconstruction," or, Who, today, speaks for the anthropocene? / Tom Cohen -- Paul de Man at work : what good is an archive? / J. Hillis Miller -- DNA : de Man's nucleic archive / Erin Obodiac -- Sovereign debt crisis : Paul de Man and the privatization of thought / Martin McQuillan -- Appendix. Nietzsche 1 : rhetoric + metaphysics / Paul de Man
Taking Paul de Man's recently published manuscript 'Textual Allegories' as a point of departure, 13 experts, themselves significant voices in contemporary literary theory, revisit de Man's account of Rousseau and what he calls a 'theotropic allegory'
Physical Description:x, 196 pages
ISBN:9780748665624
0748665625
0748676635
9780748676637
9780748665617
0748665617

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