Pathos (Allegories of Reading).(Brief Article)(Transcript)

MANY READERS HAVE DIFFICULTY IMAGINING WHAT THE FORMS OF SELFHOOD proposed by poststructuralist theory are supposed to feel like, and some assume that the very idea of strong emotion is inconsistent with poststructuralist theories of the self. Alongside this concern runs another one, that poststructuralist texts are not very affective.

De Man's work has been used to exemplify both the claim that poststructuralist writing is cold and the claim that it does not possess an adequate account of emotion.(1) John Guillory, for example, argues that de Man's students are forced by their ...

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