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Paul de Man | |
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| Born | Paul Adolph Michel Deman December 6, 1919 Antwerp, Belgium |
| Died | December 21, 1983 (aged 64) New Haven, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Education | Free University of Brussels Harvard University (Ph.D., 1960) |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Deconstruction |
Notable ideas | Criticism of authorial intentionalism |
Paul de Man (December 6, 1919 – December 21, 1983), born Paul Adolph Michel Deman,[1] was a Belgian-born literary critic and literary theorist. He was known particularly for his importation of German and French philosophical approaches into Anglo-American literary studies and critical theory. Along with Jacques Derrida, he was part of an influential critical movement that went beyond traditional interpretation of literary texts to reflect on the epistemological difficulties inherent in any textual, literary, or critical activity.[2] This approach aroused considerable opposition, which de Man attributed to "resistance" inherent in the difficult enterprise of literary interpretation itself.[3]
After his death, de Man became a subject of further controversy when his history of writing pro-Nazi and anti-Jewish propaganda for the wartime edition of Le Soir, a major Belgian newspaper during German occupation, came to light.
- ^ Barish 2014, p. 3.
- ^ Stranger Than Fiction The Atavist Magazine. 2020.
- ^ de Man, Paul (1982). The Resistance to Theory. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. pp. 3–20.