Signs of the Times: Deconstruction and the Fall of Paul de Man

LEHMAN, David

ISBN 10: 0671682393 / ISBN 13: 9780671682392

Published by Poseidon Press, New York, 1991

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First edition. Pages have light age-toning, else fine in fine dustwrapper.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Signs of the Times: Deconstruction and the Fall of Paul de Man
• Publisher: Poseidon Press, New York
• Publication Date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0671682393
• ISBN 13: 9780671682392
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

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Synopsis

Lehman, David, Signs Of The Times: Deconstruction And The Fall Of Paul De Man

Reviews

Poet and critic Lehman adds a new afterword to his acclaimed critique of deconstruction and that movement's late high priest, Yale professor and sometime Nazi apologist Paul de Man.
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Deconstruction leaves few people neutral. Lehman examines the current academic uproar over this literary movement and the scandal arising from the revelations that the late de Man, one of its chief exponents, had collaborated with the Nazis, writing anti-Semitic articles during the German occupation of Belgium. He includes a translation of de Man's 1941 essay, "The Jews in Contemporary Literature." Lehman is especially interested in analyzing the often disingenuous defenses of de Man offered by the deconstructive establishment, and the deeper implications of these with regard to the state of intellectual life in the United States. While Lehman finds the implications of deconstruction disturbing, his treatment is lively and thorough.
- T.L. Cooksey, Armstrong State Coll., Savannah, Ga.
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