Blindness and Insight: Essays in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticism by Paul de Man
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Overview: In Blindness and Insight de Man examines several critics and finds in their writings a gap between their statements about the nature of literature and the results of their practical criticism.
Focuses upon the gap between a critic’s view of a particular mark and his own literary method using the critical writings of Binswanger, Lukacs, Blanchot, Paulet, and Derrida
The idea of this work’s title, Blindness and Insight, is a paradoxical one. For Paul de Man, the qualities of blindness and insight are not polar opposites but qualities that strangely work together in exemplifying the mysteries of a complicated critical text. Often, de Man argues, critics will seem to have a blind spot and to willfully not notice aspects of a text that do not accord with the fixed ideas they bring to a text; and, he continues, these critics see some details of a literary work only to negate others. De Man does not suggest, however, that this “blindness” should be altered; instead, this blindness enables the critical insight in the first place. Insights are arrived at through the “cost” of blindness.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Educational > Literary Criticism
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