Legacies of Paul de Man

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c o n t e n t s Acknowledgments vii Introduction: Legacies of Paul de Man marc redfield 1 I. Reading Double-Take: Reading de Man and Derrida Writing on Tropes cynthia chase 17 Reading, Begging, Paul de Man jan mieszkowski 29 II. Reading History History against Historicism, Formal Matters, and the Event of the Text: de Man with Benjamin ian balfour 49 Discontinuous Shifts: History Reading History andrzej warminski 62 III. Institutions of Pedagogy ‘‘At the Far End of This Ongoing Enterprise . . .’’ sara guyer 77 Professing Literature: John Guillory’s Misreading of Paul de Man marc redfield 93 IV. Theory, Materiality, and the Aesthetic Thinking Singularity with Immanuel Kant and Paul de Man: Aesthetics, Epistemology, History, and Politics arkady plotnitsky 129 Seeing Is Reading rei terada 162 v vi Contents Appendix 1 Courses Taught by Paul de Man during the Yale Era marc redfield 179 Appendix 2 Course Proposal: Literature Z paul de man 185 Contributors 191 Notes 193 Index 223 ...