The first collection of texts by Paul de Man to follow the posthumous Aesthetic Ideology (1996), the title refers to de Man's Harvard thesis of the late 1950s, from which... Læs mere
This anthology collects 36 texts and papers from the Paul de Man archive, including essays on art and literature, translations, critical fragments, research plans, interviews, and reports on the state of comparative literature.
In 'Blindness and Insight', de Man examines several critics and finds in their writings a gap between their statements about the nature of literature and the results of their practical criticism.