The Wild Card of Reading: On Paul de Man

Neuausgabe 1998
ISBN: 978-0-674-95296-6
Verlag: HARVARD UNIV PR

Buch, Englisch, 610 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 413 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gasche, Rodolphe

Gasché, Rodolphe

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur

Über Autor(innen)

Gasché, Rodolphe
Rodolphe Gasché is Eugenio Donato Professor of Comparative Literature at the State University of New York at Buffalo.