Political Archive of Paul de Man

Property, Sovereignty and the Theotropic

Inbunden, Engelska, 2012

Av Martin McQuillan, Edge Hill University) McQuillan, Martin (director of the Institute for Creative Enterprise, Martin Mcquillan

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Presents Paul de Man’s thinking to a contemporary politicised audience through original archival researchTaking de Man’s recently published manuscript Textual Allegories as a point of departure, 13 experts revisit de Man’s account 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 The volume is framed by an introduction by Martin McQuillan and concludes with an original and previously unpublished text by Paul de Man on Nietzsche.Key Features:Presents the first published responses to a recently published de Man manuscriptRelates de Man’s work to key topics in contemporary TheoryOutstanding list of contributors including Etienne Balibar, Ellen Burt, Stephen Barker, Andrzej Warminski, Tom Cohen and J. Hillis MillerFirst publication of a Paul de Man text on Nietzsche

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Utgivningsdatum2012-08-06
Mått156 x 234 x 17 mm
Vikt460 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor208
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9780748665617

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Martin McQuillan is director of the Institute for Creative Enterprise at Edge Hill University. He is a writer, filmmaker and literary theorist. His academic work includes the monographs Critical Practice: Philosophy and Creativity (2019), Deconstruction without Derrida (2014) and Deconstruction after 9/11 (2008). His prize-winning film work includes Hamlet Within (2023) and Oxi: An act of resistance with Ken McMullen (2015) and Love in the Post with Joanna Callaghan (2014).

Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Notes on contributors; Editor’s Introduction: Broken Promises: Rousseau, de Man, and Watergate, Martin McQuillan; 1. Lovence in Rousseau's Julie ou la Nouvelle Héloïse, Etienne Balibar; 2. Reading Spectacles in Rousseau’s Lettre à d’Alembert, Ellen Burt; 3. The Utter Misery of the Human Mind: Apotropaic and Theotropic in de Man’s Rousseau, Nigel Mapp; 4. Rhetoric and Rausch: de Man on Nietzsche on Value and Style, Stephen Barker; 5. ‘Theotropic Logology? Paul de Man and Kenneth Burke’ Steven Mailloux; 6. Normativity, Materiality and Inequality: The Politics of the Letter in Paul de Man, Walter Benn Michaels; 7. Inscribing the Political: Paul de Man and the Wild Art of Letter Writing; Kevin Newmark; 8. Mistake in Paul de Man: Violent Reading and Theotropic Violence, Marc Redfield; 9. Lightstruck: "Hegel on the Sublime", Andrzej Warminski; 10. De Man vs. "deconstruction"—or, Who today, speaks for the anthropocene? Tom Cohen; 11. Paul de Man at Work: What Good is an Archive? J. Hillis Miller; 12. DNA: de Man’s Nucleic Archive, Erin Obodiac; 13. Sovereign Debt Crisis: Paul de Man and the privatization of thought, Martin McQuillan; Appendix: Nietzsche I: Rhetoric and Metaphysics; Paul de Man; Index.