Fashion is like the ashes left behind by the uniquely shaped flames of the fire, the trace alone revealing that a fire actually took place.
What we call ideology is precisely the confusion of linguistic with natural reality, of reference with phenomenalism - Paul De Man
What we call ideology is precisely the confusion of linguistic with natural reality, of reference with phenomenalism
- Paul De Man
The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language. - Paul De Man
The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language.
If one reads too quickly or too slowly, one understands nothing. - Paul De Man
If one reads too quickly or too slowly, one understands nothing.
Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true pres… - Paul De Man
Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true pres…
The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot c… - Paul De Man
The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot c…
The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear -- and even, in certain respects, would be -- the most modern of critical movements. - Paul De Man
The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear -- and even, in certain respects, would be -- the most modern of critical movements.
Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts. - Paul De Man
Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts.
Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually say what one means. - Paul De Man
Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually say what one means.
The bases for historical knowledge are not empirical facts but written texts, even if these texts masquerade in the guise of wars or revolutions. - Paul De Man
The bases for historical knowledge are not empirical facts but written texts, even if these texts masquerade in the guise of wars or revolutions.
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