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Paul De Man
Birth date: December 06, 1919
Died: December 21, 1983
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tishke
tishke rated it 12 years ago
One of the books I read as a teenager that strengthened my values about future relationships and marriage.
Book Addled
Book Addled rated it 56 years ago
"Blindness" serves as Paul de Man's trope for cognition. Our acts of interpretation necessarily result in spatialization, the formation of "gaps," as we literally only see certain parts of the text. The blindness enables our insight, for if all were foregrounded, nothing would be foregrounded. The o...
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