The political archive of Paul de Man : property, sovereignty, and the theotropic /
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| Imprint: | Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2012. |
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| Description: | x, 196 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8966242 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction: Broken Promises: Rousseau, de Man and Watergate
- 1. Lovence in Rousseau's Julie ou la Nouvelle Héloïse
- 2. Reading Spectacles in Rousseau's Letter to d'Alembert
- 3. The Utter Misery of the Human Mind: Apotropaic and Theotropic in de Man's Rousseau
- 4. Rhetoric and Rausch: de Man on Nietzsche on Value and Style
- 5. Theotropic Logology: J. Hillis Miller, Paul de Man and Kenneth Burke
- 6. Normativity, Materiality and Inequality: The Politics of the Letter in Paul de Man
- 7. Inscribing the Political: Paul de Man and the Wild Art of Letter Writing
- 8. Mistake in Paul de Man: Violent Reading and Theotropic Violence
- 9. Lightstruck: 'Hegel on the Sublime'
- 10. De Man vs. 'Deconstruction': or, Who, Today, Speaks for the Anthropocene?
- 11. Paul de Man at Work: What Good is an Archive?
- 12. DNA: de Man's Nucleic Archive
- 13. Sovereign Debt Crisis: Paul de Man and the Privatization of Thought
- Appendix: Nietzsche I: Rhetoric + Metaphysics
- Index
