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COPYRIGHT 1994 University of Illinois Press
By Jan Rosiek. Arhus, Denmark: Aarhus University Press, 1992. Pp. 247. Dkr. 134.
This book is handicapped by two distressingly obvious afflictions. First, although largely written in 1989 and including the i 989 volume on Paul de Man's wartime journalism (Responses) in its bibliography, it never once refers to the controversy over anti-semitism which has forever changed the context in which de Man's writings are discussed. Rosiek does seem to have missed the opportunity to withhold the manuscript while reassessing certain of de Man's critical allegiances (especially the important one to Heidegger): changes might have been subtle rather than drastic, but zero change seems implausible. And second, while Rosiek writes well and cogently, he is no de Man; every time the master himself is quoted, the reader asks the subversive question: why do I need a critic, even a responsible and well-schooled critic, to escort me along Paul de Man's intellectual odyssey, when de...
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