Table of Contents

• "Introduction"
• Marc Redfield, Claremont Graduate University
• Abstract | Essay


I. Reading
• "Double-Take. Reading De Man and Derrida Writing on Tropes"
• Cynthia Chase, Cornell University
• Abstract | Essay
• "Reading, Begging, Paul de Man"
• Jan Mieszkowski, Reed College
• Abstract | Essay


II. Reading History
• "History against Historicism, Formal Matters, and the Event of the Text: De Man with Benjamin"
• Ian Balfour, York University
• Abstract | Essay
• "Discontinuous Shifts: History Reading History"
• Andrzej Warminski, University of California, Irvine
• Abstract | Essay


III. Institutions of Pedagogy
• "'At the Far End of this Ongoing Enterprise...'"
• Sara Guyer, University of Wisconsin, Madison
• Abstract | Essay
• "Professing Literature: John Guillory's Misreading of Paul de Man"
• Marc Redfield, Claremont Graduate University
• Abstract | Essay


IV. Theory, Materiality, and the Aesthetic
• "Thinking Singularity with Immanuel Kant and Paul de Man: Aesthetics, Epistemology, History and Politics"
• Arkady Plotnitsky, Purdue University
• Abstract | Essay
• "Seeing Is Reading"
• Rei Terada, University of California, Irvine
• Abstract | Essay
• Appendix I: Courses Taught by Paul de Man during the Yale Era
• Appendix II: Course Proposal Literature Z

• MAY 2005