Volume 38, Number 19 · November 21, 1991
The Politics of Deconstruction
By Louis Menand
Signs of the Times: Deconstruction and the Fall of Paul de Man
by David Lehman
Poseidon, 318 pp., $21.95
Signs of the Times is a study of the critical practice known as deconstruction, and of the career of deconstruction's leading proponent in America, Paul de Man, who died in 1983 but who achieved posthumous notoriety when, in 1987, articles he had written as a young man for two Belgian newspapers controlled by the Nazis were discovered. The book's author, David Lehman, is a literary journalist and poet who has a doctorate in English from Columbia.
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