Blindness and insight : essays in the rhetoric of contemporary criticism / Paul de Man ; introduction by Wlad Godzich.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Criticism and crisis --Form and intent in the American new criticism --Ludwig Binswanger and the sublimation of the self --Georg Luk��c's Theory of the novel --Impersonality in the criticism of Maurice Blanchot --The literary self as origin: the work of Georges Poulet --The rhetoric of blindness: Jacques Derrida's reading of Rousseau --Literary history and literary modernity --Lyric and modernity --The rhetoric of temporality --The dead-end of formalist criticism --Heidegger's exegeses of H��lderlin --Appendix A: A review of Harold Bloom's Anxiety of influence --Appendix B: Literature and language: a commentary.