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Serenity in Crisis

A Preface to Paul de Man, 1939-1960

By: Ortwin de Graef

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Serenity in Crisis

A Preface to Paul de Man, 1939-1960

By: Ortwin de Graef

A polymath well versed in European literature and philosophy, one of the founders of deconstruction, and a widely respected teacher, Paul de Man brought unprecedented attention and acclaim to the so-called Yale Critics. His fame was at a zenith when he died suddenly in 1983. A few years later, Ortwin de Graef found the de Man had written for the collaborationist press during the Nazi occupation, a discovery that ignited an international reassessment of de Man's work. Serenity in Crisis is the first sustained account of the complex, intertextual tradition in which de Man wrote and of the persistent concerns expressed in his early work. It reconstructs the truth-models with which de Man justified his political choice before and during the occupation and traces them back to an ambitious intention to integrate the competing truths of the natural sciences, the social sciences, and literature. The significance of de Man's ideational framework and the decisions that followed from it have extended well beyond the disasters of World War II. De Graef clearly illuminates and critiques the abstruse paths of logic in de Man's early writings as well as in the reformulations of de Man's thought expressed in his writings of the 1950s.

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Titanic Light

Paul de Man's Post-romanticism, 1960-1969

By: Ortwin de Graef

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Titanic Light

Paul de Man's Post-romanticism, 1960-1969

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Titanic Light concentrates on de Man's increased interest during the 1960s in Romantic (and post-Romantic) literature and criticism. De Graef follows in detail de Man's strong readings of the works of Holderlin, Rousseau, and Wordsworth. He connects de Man's interpretations of these and other writers with his earlier critical works and his later deconstructive writings. In addition, de Graef places de Man's essays from the 1960s (some later collected in the influential volume Blindness and Insight) in the context of the critical debates of that era - debate's about structuralism, Marxism, phenomenology, American New Criticism, and other critical schools.

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A Preface to Paul de Man, 1939-1960

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Paul de Man's Post-romanticism, 1960-1969

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Paul de Man's Post-romanticism, 1960-1969

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Digital Reason

Guide Meaning, Medium

By: Jan Baetens,Ortwin de Graef,Silvana Mandolessi

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Digital Reason

Guide Meaning, Medium

By: Jan Baetens,Ortwin de Graef,Silvana Mandolessi

Introductory and user-friendly textbook for scholars and students in the humanities Multidisciplinary approach to digital culture Cross-fertilization of three major perspectives: history of ideas, art, identity and memory studies Includes a wide selection of examples and case studies with many suggestions for advanced study and reading The digital revolution has changed our ways of thinking, working, writing, and living together. In this book the authors critically analyse the ways in which these new technologies have reshaped our world in numerous respects, ranging from politics, ideology, and philosophy over art and communication to memory and identity. The book challenges the customary view of a divide between analog and digital culture, claiming instead that human endeavour has always been characterized by certain forms and aspects of digital thinking, building, and communicating, and that essential parts of analog culture are still being reshaped by new digital technologies. It offers a multidisciplinary approach to digital reason, reflecting the diversity of humanities scholarship and its fundamental contribution to the ongoing changes in our current and future thinking and doing.

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