Paul de Man Quotes
Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.
de Man, Paul. "Autobiography as De-facement." The Rhetoric of Romanticism. Columbia University Press, 1984, p. 81.
Conkling the boss of New York politics had designs on the Presidency. However, when the President was assassinated, the murderer claimed to have acted in favor of the Conkling political views as Vice President Chester Arthur was a Conkling political soldier. Although Conkling had nothing to do with the assassination, he left politics and returned to private law practice. He also refused an appointment to the Supreme Court.
Paul de Man, born Paul Adolph Michel Deman, was a Belgian-born literary critic and literary theorist. At the time of his death, de Man was one of the most prominent literary critics in the United States—known particularly for his importation of German and French philosophical approaches into Anglo-American literary studies and critical theory. Along with Jacques Derrida, he was part of an influential critical movement that went beyond traditional interpretation of literary texts to reflect on the epistemological difficulties inherent in any textual, literary, or critical activity. This approach aroused considerable opposition, which de Man attributed to "resistance" inherent in the difficult enterprise of literary interpretation itself.
