Description: This volume explicates Paul de Man's late project of a critique of aesthetic ideology and attempts to extend it in ways productive for critical thought.
Brief description: Andrzej Warminski is Professor of English at the University of California, Irvine. He has published Material Inscriptions: Rhetorical Reading in Practice and Theory with Edinburgh University Press (2013). He is also the author of Readings in Interpretation: Hölderlin, Hegel, Heidegger and the editor of Paul de Man's Aesthetic Ideology.
Review Quotes: The publication of this book is a historical event. Paul de Man (and Warminski) mean by the term "event" something that happens, something that changes history. This book does that with unparalleled intelligence, learning, and insight. It develops and deploys to wonderful effect a specifically Warminskian way of doing rhetorical readings.-- "J. Hillis Miller, University of California, Irvine"