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<p>Renowned contributors use the late work of this crucial figure to open new speculations on "materiality." <P> A "material event," in one of Paul de Man's definitions, is a piece of writing that enters history to make something happen. This interpretation hovers over the publication of this volume, a timely reconsideration of de Man's late work in its complex literary, critical, cultural, philosophical, political, and historical dimensions. <P> Responding to the problematic of "materialism" as posed in Paul de Man's posthumous last book, Aesthetic Ideology, a diverse and distinguished group of scholars explores the question of "material events" in ways that illuminate not just de Man's work but their own, work at the forefront of critical theory, productive thinking, and writing in the humanities. The contributors work in disciplines ranging from art history to psychoanalysis, from literary studies and philosophy to political science, and include Jacques Derrida, who returns in an extended essay to a celebrated episode in Rousseau's Confessions discussed by de Man in Allegories of Reading. <P> The importance of de Man's late work is related to a broad range of subjects and catego

Author

Tom Cohen; Barbara Cohen; J. Hillis Miller; Andrzej Warminski

Publisher

University of Minnesota Press; Univ Of Minnesota Press

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9780816636143

Subjects

History, Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction