Blindness And Insight

Blindness and Insight, the widely influential and classic work of Paul de Man, one of the most important names in the field of literary criticism in the twentieth century, which focuses on the problematic structure of reading and questions the assumptions of those interested in literature about their own roles as readers, is finally in Turkish.
In his essays in this book, De Man develops his thought not directly from literary works like other literary theorists, but from critics whose depth in their view of literature is accepted by everyone. It shows that the findings of critics such as Blanchot, Lukács, Poulet, Derrida, Heidegger and Bloom about the structure of the texts they examined contradict the general understanding they used as a model in the first place. It shows that these contradictions and inconsistencies, of which these writers are not very aware and which constitute their blind spots, actually feed them, and that "they owe their best insights to the assumptions that these insights refute." A challenging but mind-expanding classic that should be read carefully by all researchers working in the fields of humanities, as well as those interested in literature and literary theory.



Number of Pages: 352

Year of Printing: 2008


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Metis Publishing

First Printing Year: 2008

Number of Pages: 352

Language Turkish