The Wild Card of Reading: On Paul de Man

by Rodolphe Gasché

One of the most knowledgeable and provocative explicators of Paul de Man's writings, Rodolphe Gasch , 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. Gasch shows that de Man's "reading" centers on a dimension of the texts that is irreducible to any possible meaning, a dimension...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674952960
• ISBN13: 9780674952966
• Release Date: September 1998
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 610 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.2"