Blindness and Insight: Essays in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticism (Theory and History of Literature, Vol. 7)

paul de man

Focuses upon the gap between a critic's view of a particular mark and his own literary method using the critical writings of Binswanger, Lukacs, Blanchot, Paulet, and Derrida

Genres philosophytheorycriticismnonfictionliterary criticismessaysliterary fictionbelgium

342 pages, Perfect Paperback

First published January 1,1971

This edition

Format: 342 pages, Perfect Paperback
Published: October 3, 1983 by University of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9780816611355
ASIN: 0816611351
Language: English

About the author

Paul de Man was a Belgian-born deconstructionist literary critic and theorist.

He began teaching at Bard College. Later, he completed his Ph.D. at Harvard University in the late 1950s. He then taught at Cornell University, Johns Hopkins University, and the University of Zurich, before ending up on the faculty in French and Comparative Literature at Yale University, where he was considered part of the Yale School of deconstruction.

At the time of his death from cancer, he was Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale. After his death, the discovery of some two hundred articles he wrote during World War II for collaborationist newspapers, including one explicitly anti-Semitic, caused a scandal and provoked a reconsideration of his life and work. De Man oversaw the dissertations of both Gayatri Spivak and Barbara Johnson.