This anthology collects texts and papers from the Paul de Man archive, including essays on art, translations, critical fragments, research plans, interviews, and reports on the state of comparative ...literature. The volume engages with Paul de Man's institutional life, gathering together pedagogical and critical material to investigate his profound influence on the American academy and theory today. It also contains a number of substantial, previously unpublished and untranslated texts by de Man from the span of his writing career. As a new collection of primary sources this volume further stimulates the growing reappraisal of de Man's work.
Twenty-five essays and reviews not previously collected, most of which were written before 1970, and eight of which are appearing in English for the first time.
In a brilliant collection of essays, de Man explores his views, that, the resistance to theory is inherent in the theoretical enterprise itself, and the real debate is with its own methodological ...assumptions and possibilities. “Indispensable. . . . There is resistance to ‘theory’ and also confusion about its status with reference to both philosophy and criticism.” -Frank Kermode, Columbia University
The title 'The Post-Romantic Predicament' refers to Paul de Man's Harvard thesis of the late 1950s, which named a Romantic problem of the complexity of thought and poetic consciousness as an ...experience of difficulty. The long section on Mallarmé is reproduced from this dissertation and an extract on Stefan George, written at the same time but cut from the final version due to the word limit, is also included. These sit beside stand-alone essays on Rousseau, Derrida, Symbolism, and Keats. In this collection, de Man names a historical problem of the complexity of thought and poetic consciousness as an experience of difficulty, demonstrated by the extreme character of the linguistic practice of his chosen poets. These essays indicate the large reservoir of reading that informed de Man's thought and each essay in its own way can be thought of as an important foil for other texts in de Man's ouevre. The Post-Romantic Predicament is a remarkably economic concentration of the work on the ideology of Romanticism that de Man was later to pursue. This volume seeks to intensify our understanding of de Man's complex work and render it ever more effective. This is the first collection of texts by Paul de Man published since the posthumous Aesthetic Ideology (1996) and showcases important contributions to the analysis of Romantic and Post-Romantic poetry that engaged de Man for most of his life.
Aesthetic Ideology de Man, Paul; Warminski, Andrzej; Warminksi, Andrzej
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Offers the definitive resource to de Man's thoughts on philosophy, politics, and history. The texts collected here were written or delivered as lectures during the last years of de Man's life, ...between 1977 and 1983. Many of them have never been available previously in any form.
