Responses

On Paul de Man's Wartime Journalism

By: Werner Hamacher (Editor), Neil H. Hertz (Editor), Thomas Keenan (Editor)

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This collection of essays serves as a forum for a broad spectrum of responses to the war-time writing of Paul de Man, responses rarely in agreement and often sharply contradictory, differing in approach, affect, and style. Responses engages in reading de Man’s early articles, in articulating their multiple contexts, then and now, and in opening the limitations imposed by rubrics like “the case of Paul de Man” and “deconstruction politics.”

Responses brings together the readings and commentaries of literary critics and historians from the United States and Europe, with their diverse strategies—historical, rhetorical, psychological, political. The primary aims of these essays are reading de Man’s texts, from 1940 to 1983, and assessing them in their political, ideological, and institutional fields.

Responses also provides essential historical materials—letters, documents, personal recollections—on Le Soir and Het Vlaamsche Land, on the occupation of Belgium, and on the biography of Paul de Man. An appendix collects the recent reactions of newspapers in the United States and Europe (France, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, Belgium, and elsewhere) to the discovery of de Man’s wartime writings.

Contributors include Yves Bonnefoy, Cynthia Chase, Else de Bens, Ortwin de Graef, Jacques Derrida, Rodolphe Gasche, Gerald Graff, Barbara Johnson, Jeffrey Mehlman, J. Hillis Miller, Edward Said, Marc Shell, Gayatri Spivak, and others.

The collection appears under the auspices of the Oxford Literary Review, England’s leading theoretical journal for over a decade.

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Preface
Acknowledgements
Paul de Man: a Chronology, 1919-1949
Telephonic Crossroads: the Reversal and the Double Cross	p. 1
Difficult Reading: de Man's Itineraries	p. 6
Fascist Commitments	p. 21
Synchronic Theory and Absolutism: et Tu, Brute? de Man's Wartime Writings	p. 36
Trappings of an Education toward What We Do Not Yet Have	p. 44
On Paul de Man's Collaborationist Writings	p. 80
Paul de Man and the Collaborationist Press	p. 85
Aspects of the Context of Paul de Man's Earliest Publications	p. 96
Like the Sound of the Sea Deep within a Shell: Paul de Man's War	p. 127
To Read Paul de Man	p. 165
Ancestral Voices: de Man and His Defenders	p. 173
Literature, Ideology	p. 185
Paul de Man's 1940-1942 Articles in Context	p. 193
Blindness and Hindsight	p. 204
Edges of Understanding	p. 208
Regarding the Signatory	p. 221
Disfiguring de Man: Literature, History, and Collaboration	p. 226
Looking Past the de Man Case	p. 246
a Violent Dawn at le Soir	p. 255
Paul de Man, le Soir, and the Francophone Collaboration (1940-1942)	p. 266
Deman's Resistances: a Contribution to the Future Science of Demanology	p. 285
Opting to Know: on the Wartime Journalism of Paul de Man	p. 298
From the Authority of Appropriate (de)form(ation) To-: Toward de Man's Totalitarian Acts	p. 314
on de Man and le Soir	p. 324
An Open Letter to Professor Jon Wiener	p. 334
Resisting, Responding	p. 343
Rigor Vitae	p. 350
De Man Ce Soir	p. 356
Mourning Becomes Paul de Man	p. 363
Observations on Occupation	p. 368
Paul de Man's Wartime Journalism	p. 370
De Man and Guilt	p. 375
Terrible Reading (preceded by "Epigraphs")	p. 386
Paul de Man: a Sketch of Two Generations	p. 397
The Monument Disfigured	p. 404
Paul de Man and the Cercle Du Libre Examen	p. 426
Journals, Politics: Notes on Paul de Man's Wartime Journalism	p. 438
Documents Public Criticisms	p. 468
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