TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gasché,Rodolphe
TI  - The Wild Card of Reading: On Paul de Man 
SN  - 9780674273757
U1  - 801/.95/092 21
PY  - 1998///]
CY  - Cambridge, MA
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Criticism
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674273757?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674273757
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