ضد النظرية

by Paul De Man, مرسي عواد (Translator)

في هذا الكتاب يُحَكّم (بول دومان) مَنْهَجَ القِراءةِ النَّصَّيَّ الذي تَخَيَّرَه ودافَعَ عنه، ليُقدَّم أُطرُوحَتَه المُتكامِلَةَ في سِياق المُقاوَمَة التي عَرَضَتْ لها داخِلَ الواقع النَّقْدِيّ الأمريكي إبَّانَ سَبعينيَّات القرن العِشرِينَ وثَمانِينيَّاته. فتَتَعانَق المَباحِثُ اللَّسانِيَّةُ والنَّقْدِيَّةُ مُتَوَسِّلَةً بمسائل الفَلْسَفَة وقَضاياها وإشكاليَّات التَّارِيخ والتَّارِيخانِيَّة، ويَصِير التَّأسِيسُ النَّظَرِيُّ قَرِينَ التَّطبِيقِ العَمَلِيِّ. وتأتي النَّصْوصُ التي يَستنِد إليها التَّنظِيرُ وتلك التي يَعتمِدها التَّحليلُ نُصُوصًا عالَمِيَّةَ التَّوَجَّهِ والذَّائقةِ، لا تَحبِسها لُغَةٌ ولا ثَقافَةٌ ولا تَقلِيدُ أَدَبِيٌّ، وإن ظَلَّتْ في مُجْمَلها غَرْبِيَّةً لا مَحالَةَ؛ فتَتَجاوَر هنا الإنجليزِيَّةُ والألمانِيَّةُ والفَرنْسِيَّةُ واللاتِينِيَّةُ واليُونانِيَّةُ لُغابٍ وثَقافاتٍ وتقالِيدَ أَدَبِيَّةً مُعْرِقَةً، ويَظَلَ وَعْيَ (دومان) مُنْفَتِحًا على كلِّ هذا في جوارِيَّةٍ ثَرِيَّةٍ في مُنطَلَقاتها ونتائجها.

Genres: Philosophy, Theory, Literary Criticism, Nonfiction, Criticism

Paperback

First published August 1, 1986

About the author

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 work. De Man oversaw the dissertations of both Gayatri Spivak and Barbara Johnson.

Reviews

[Leif · Rating 5 out of 5]

Two things.

One: Wlad Godzich is a deft hand at the gloriously helpful introduction. Read the man, love the man, hate the man, whatever, he'll still have written a capable, understandable, and suitably wide-ranging introduction for a book few others could tackle with the same friendly acumen.

Two: fuck the haters, Paul de Man knocks it out of the park. End of story.

[Tauan Belchior · Rating 5 out of 5]

"A literatura é 'ficção' não porque de algum modo se negue a aceitar 'a realidade', mas porque não é certo, a priori, que a linguagem funcione segundo princípios que são os do mundo fenomenal ou que são como eles. Portanto, não é certo, a priori, que a literatura seja uma fonte de informações fiáveis acerca de outra coisa que não seja sua própria linguagem. Assim, a resistência à teoria é uma resistência ao uso da linguagem sobre a linguagem, o que quer dizer, à possibilidade de que a linguagem expresse mais, que não se reduza ao plano de expressão daquilo que é apenas intuitivo."

[Weronika · Rating 5 out of 5]

To, jak to jest skomponowane, napisane; ach!
Chyba wtedy właśnie pojęłam, jak fajnie można pisać.

[Burcu]

TOC

Foreword: The Tiger on the Paper Mat Wlad Godzich ix
The Resistance to Theory 3
The Return to Philology 21
Hypogram and Inscription 27
Reading and History 54
"Conclusions": Walter Benjamin's "The Task of the Translator" 73
Dialogue and Dialogism 106
An Interview with Paul de Man Stefano Rosso 115
Bibliography of Texts by Paul de Man Tom Keenan 122
Index 131

[Egor xS · Rating 4 out of 5]

from the glorious days of literary criticism.