Paul de Man is often associated with an era of 'high theory'; an era it is argued may now be coming to a close. This text, written by three leading contemporary scholars, includes a previously unpublished text by de Man of his handwritten notes for a lecture on Walter Benjamin.
Paul de Man is often associated with an era of 'high theory'; an era it is argued may now be coming to a close. This text, written by three leading co...
Tom Cohen (State University of New York Professor Claire Colebrook (Penn State U J Hillis Miller
Following on from Theory and the Disappearing Future, in Twilight of the Anthropocene Idols, Cohen, Colebrook and Miller turn their attention to the eco-critical and environmental humanities' newest and most fashionable of concepts, the Anthropocene. The question that has escaped focus, as "tipping points" are acknowledged as passed, is how language, mnemo-technologies, and the epistemology of tropes appear to guide the accelerating ecocide, and how that implies a mutation within reading itself-from the era of extinction events.
Following on from Theory and the Disappearing Future, in Twilight of the Anthropocene Idols, Cohen, Colebrook and Miller turn their attention to the e...
