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“... definition of the sign’. You have to like the unfathomable a lot to write like that. Evelyn Barish catches this note very well in an awkward but telling mixed metaphor. De Man’s ‘approach to literature … took as its bedrock a subversive doubt concerning the truthtelling power of language’. Even subversive doubt will become a bedrock ...”

“... this had any bearing on the deconstruction he propounded. The new revelations rooted out by Evelyn Barish in her biography of de Man last year – bigamy, fraud and an unserved prison sentence – further fuelled the discussion.* Similar questions circle around Heidegger: it had always been known that he was a member of the Nazi Party, but his ...”