Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction: Broken Promises: Rousseau, de Man and Watergate
- 1 Lovence in Rousseau's Julie ou la Nouvelle Héloïse
- 2 Reading Spectacles in Rousseau's Letter to d'Alembert
- 3 The Utter Misery of the Human Mind: Apotropaic and Theotropic in de Man's Rousseau
- 4 Rhetoric and Rausch: de Man on Nietzsche on Value and Style
- 5 Theotropic Logology: J. Hillis Miller, Paul de Man and Kenneth Burke
- 6 Normativity, Materiality and Inequality: The Politics of the Letter in Paul de Man
- 7 Inscribing the Political: Paul de Man and the Wild Art of Letter Writing
- 8 Mistake in Paul de Man: Violent Reading and Theotropic Violence
- 9 Lightstruck: ‘Hegel on the Sublime’
- 10 De Man vs. ‘Deconstruction’: or, Who, Today, Speaks for the Anthropocene?
- 11 Paul de Man at Work: What Good is an Archive?
- 12 DNA: de Man's Nucleic Archive
- 13 Sovereign Debt Crisis: Paul de Man and the Privatization of Thought
- Appendix: Nietzsche I: Rhetoric + Metaphysics
- Index
List of Abbreviations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction: Broken Promises: Rousseau, de Man and Watergate
- 1 Lovence in Rousseau's Julie ou la Nouvelle Héloïse
- 2 Reading Spectacles in Rousseau's Letter to d'Alembert
- 3 The Utter Misery of the Human Mind: Apotropaic and Theotropic in de Man's Rousseau
- 4 Rhetoric and Rausch: de Man on Nietzsche on Value and Style
- 5 Theotropic Logology: J. Hillis Miller, Paul de Man and Kenneth Burke
- 6 Normativity, Materiality and Inequality: The Politics of the Letter in Paul de Man
- 7 Inscribing the Political: Paul de Man and the Wild Art of Letter Writing
- 8 Mistake in Paul de Man: Violent Reading and Theotropic Violence
- 9 Lightstruck: ‘Hegel on the Sublime’
- 10 De Man vs. ‘Deconstruction’: or, Who, Today, Speaks for the Anthropocene?
- 11 Paul de Man at Work: What Good is an Archive?
- 12 DNA: de Man's Nucleic Archive
- 13 Sovereign Debt Crisis: Paul de Man and the Privatization of Thought
- Appendix: Nietzsche I: Rhetoric + Metaphysics
- Index
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- The Political Archive of Paul de ManProperty, Sovereignty and the Theotropic, pp. viiPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2012