Paul de Man

Blindness and Insight

Essays on literary insight and the blindness of textual interpretation

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Paul de Man

Belgian-American literary theorist who, with Derrida, founded deconstruction in the American academy. Allegories of Reading and Blindness and Insight are his major works. After his death, Nazi collaborationist journalism he wrote in his youth was discovered, igniting major controversy.

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