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The Wild Card of Reading : On Paul de Man / Rodolphe Gasché.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [1998]Copyright date: 1998Description: 1 online resource (610 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780674273757
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 801/.95/092 21
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 “Setzung” and “Übersetzung” -- 2 In-Difference to Philosophy -- 3 Apathetic Formalism -- 4 The Fallout of Reading -- 5 Giving to Read -- 6 Adding Oddities -- Appendix: On the Edges -- Notes -- Index
Summary: 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.
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Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 “Setzung” and “Übersetzung” -- 2 In-Difference to Philosophy -- 3 Apathetic Formalism -- 4 The Fallout of Reading -- 5 Giving to Read -- 6 Adding Oddities -- Appendix: On the Edges -- Notes -- Index

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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