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Few professors of Judaic literature studied with Paul de Man and the other so-called deconstructive critics at Yale University. As one of De Man’s last doctoral students, I felt directly involved — yet unable to articulate my reactions — when his incriminating wartime essays were rediscovered in 1987. At the time I watched silently as journalists and scholars debated the significance of those writings in Le Soir. Then after the smoke had cleared, the Center for Language, Literature and Culture at Emory University asked me to respond. This article has been heavily revised from my remarks at a 1993 symposium in Atlanta, which was called ‘The Thinker from the Thought’.
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P. de Man, Allegories of Reading. Figural Language in Rousseau, Nietzsche, Rilke, and Proust, New Haven 1979, II.
V. Farias, Heidegger et le nazisme, trans. M. Benarroch and J.-B. Grasset, Paris 1987.
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Lehman, Signs of the Times,183.
See e.g. Harnacher and Hertz, Responses,434, 436.
Ed. by W. Harnacher, e.a., Lincoln 1988.
Hamacher and Hertz, Responses,334
Wartime Journalism,45
Ibid.
J., Mémoires pour Paul de Man, Paris,988, wo, and id., ‘Like the Sound of the Sea Deep within a Shell. Paul de Man’s War’, trans. P. Kamuf, Critical Inquiry 14. 3 (1988) 632.
J. Derrida, ‘La mythologie blanche. La méthaphore dans le texte philosophique’, in id., Marge de la philosophie, Paris 1972, 258.
Published in A Jewish Journal at Yale 1 (1983) 39–41.
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Frieden, K. (2002). Paul de Man’s ‘Wartime Journalism’ and the Critics. In: Berger, S., Brocke, M., Zwiep, I. (eds) Zutot 2001. Zutot: Perspectives on Jewish Culture, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3730-2_26
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