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The Resistance to Theory by Paul De Man
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“Literature involves the voiding, rather than the affirmation, of aesthetic categories.”
― Paul De Man, The Resistance to Theory

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“Consciousness ("here" and "now") is not
"false and misleading" because of language; consciousness is language, and
nothing else, because it is false and misleading.”
― Paul De Man, The Resistance to Theory

tags: consciousness, hypogram-and-inscription, language

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“Nothing can overcome the resistance to theory since theory is itself this resistance.”
― Paul De Man, The Resistance to Theory

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