The Resistance to Theory by Paul De Man

The Resistance to Theory

Paul De Man

156 pages first pub 1986 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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The title essay in this book does not engage in a debate with the polemical opponents of literary theory; to Paul de Man, the resistance to theory is inherent in the theoretical enterprise itself, and the real debate is with its own methodological...

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