The Political Archive of Paul de Man: Property, Sovereignty and the Theotropic

Martin McQuillan

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2012

The Political Archive of Paul de Man

Property, Sovereignty and the Theotropic

Martin McQuillan

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748665624

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Re-reads a major theorist in terms of the current crisis in sovereignty and global capital

Taking de Man’s recently published manuscript Textual Allegories as a point of departure, 13 experts, themselves significant voices in contemporary literary theory, revisit de Man’s account of Rousseau and what he calls a ‘Theotropic Allegory’ (the second to last step before ‘Political Allegory’, on the road toward a general theory of Textual Allegory). They frame de Man’s readings of Rousseau in a ‘post-theoretical’ landscape concerned with political theology, occupied with the transformation of the western model of sovereignty, and faced with the apparent collapse of the capitalist global contract. The volume is framed by an introduction by leading de Man scholar, Martin McQuillan, and concludes with an original and previously unpublished text by Paul de Man.

Key Features:

Presents the first published responses to a recently published de Man manuscript
Relates de Man’s work to key topics in contemporary Theory
Outstanding list of contributors
Includes an original unpublished text by Paul de Man on Nietzsche

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
List of Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
Notes on Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction Broken Promises: Rousseau, de Man and Watergate Martin McQuillan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. Lovence in Rousseau’s Julie ou la Nouvelle Héloïse Etienne Balibar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
2. Reading Spectacles in Rousseau’s Letter to d’Alembert E. S. Burt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
3. The Utter Misery of the Human Mind: Apotropaic and Theotropic in de Man’s Rousseau Nigel Mapp Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
4. Rhetoric and Rausch: de Man on Nietzsche on Value and Style Stephen Barker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
5. Theotropic Logology: J. Hillis Miller, Paul de Man and Kenneth Burke Steven Mailloux Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	72
6. Normativity, Materiality and Inequality: The Politics of the Letter in Paul de Man Walter Benn Michaels Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
7. Inscribing the Political: Paul de Man and the Wild Art of Letter Writing Kevin Newmark Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
8. Mistake in Paul de Man: Violent Reading and Theotropic Violence Marc Redfield Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
9. Lightstruck: ‘Hegel on the Sublime’ Andrzej Warminski Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	118
10. De Man vs. ‘Deconstruction’: or, Who, Today, Speaks for the Anthropocene? Tom Cohen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
11. Paul de Man at Work: What Good is an Archive? J. Hillis Miller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
12. DNA: de Man’s Nucleic Archive Erin Obodiac Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157
13. Sovereign Debt Crisis: Paul de Man and the Privatization of Thought Martin McQuillan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
Appendix: Nietzsche I: Rhetoric + Metaphysics Paul de Man Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193

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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 208
Keywords: Literary Studies

eBook

Published: August 6, 2012
ISBN: 9780748665624