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Paul De Man

Born

in Belgium

December 06, 1919

Died

December 21, 1983

Genre

Nonfiction, Philosophy

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Paul de Man was a Belgian-born deconstructionist literary critic and theorist.

He began teaching at Bard College. Later, he completed his Ph.D. at Harvard University in the late 1950s. He then taught at Cornell University, Johns Hopkins University, and the University of Zurich, before ending up on the faculty in French and Comparative Literature at Yale University, where he was considered part of the Yale School of deconstruction.

At the time of his death from cancer, he was Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale. After his death, the discovery of some two hundred articles he wrote during World War II for collaborationist newspapers, including one explicitly anti-Semitic, caused a scandal and provoked a reconsideration of his life and w ...more

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	Allegories of Reading: Figural Language in Rousseau, Nietzsche, Rilke, and Proust 3.91 avg rating — 243 ratings — published 1979 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blindness and Insight: Essays in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticism (Theory and History of Literature, Vol. 7) 4.09 avg rating — 224 ratings — published 1971 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Resistance to Theory 4.02 avg rating — 128 ratings — published 1986 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Rhetoric of Romanticism 4.08 avg rating — 87 ratings — published 1984 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Aesthetic Ideology (Theory and History of Literature, Vol. 65) (Volume 65) by Paul De Man, Andrzej Warminski (Editor) 4.08 avg rating — 71 ratings — published 1996 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Critical Writings, 1953-1978 (Theory and History of Literature, Vol. 66) (Volume 66) by Paul De Man, Lindsay Waters (Editor) 3.94 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1989 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Romanticism and Contemporary Criticism: The Gauss Seminar and Other Papers by Paul De Man, Kevin Newmark (Editor), E.S. Burt (Editor) 4.43 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1992 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Semiology and Rhetoric liked it 3.00 avg rating — 8 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Autobiography as De-facement it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wartime Journalism, 1939-43 by Paul De Man, Werner Hamacher (Editor), Neil Hertz (Editor) 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1988 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts.”
― Paul De Man

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“If one reads too quickly or too slowly, one understands nothing.”
― Paul De Man, Allegories of Reading: Figural Language in Rousseau, Nietzsche, Rilke, and Proust

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“Prior to any generalization about literature, literary texts have to be read, and the possibility of reading can never be taken for granted. It is an act of understanding that can never be observed, nor in any way prescribed or verified.”
― Paul De Man, Blindness and Insight: Essays in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticism

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