Language:
English
Year of publication:
1988
Titel der Quelle:
Sewanee Review
Angaben zur Quelle:
96,2 (1988) 330-338
Keywords:
De Man, Paul
;
Antisemitism Philosophy
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
Abstract:
Examines the connection between Paul de Man's deconstructionist literary criticism and his Nazi past as signified by his purpose to destroy not only literary history but history itself, to obliterate the past - the memory of Nazism and the death camps as well as his own collaboration in writing antisemitic articles for pro-Nazi newspapers. Although it is most probable that he was acting not out of malice but out of opportunism, the fact that he engaged in this activity and later covered it up brings all of his theories into question.
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