Wild Card of Reading Paul de Man Gasche Derrida Deconstruction Literary Theory
The Wild Card of Reading: On Paul de Man (Gasche, Harvard 1998). Because de Man and Jacques Derrida are so often lumped together as deconstructionists, Gasché carefully separates the two, arguing that de Man is best approached "athwart" the great philosophers he engaged: Kant, Fichte, Hegel, Heidegger, and Derrida himself.