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Cover; Blindness And Insight; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table Of Contents; Foreword; Foreword To Revised, Second Edition; Acknowledgments; Introduction Caution! Reader At Work! Wlad Godzich; I Criticism And Crisis; Ii Form And Intent In The American New Criticism; Iii Ludwig Binswanger And The Sublimation Of The Self; Iv Georg Lukác's Theory Of The Novel; V Impersonality In The Criticism Of Maurice Blanchot; Vi The Literary Self As Origin: The Work Of Georges Poulet; Vii The Rhetoric Of Blindness: Jacques Derrida's Reading Of Rousseau; Viii Literary History And Literary Modernity. Ix Lyric And Modernityx The Rhetoric Of Temporality; Xi The Dead-end Of Formalist Criticism; Xii Heidegger's Exegeses Of Hölderlin; Appendix A: Review Of Harold Bloom's Anxiety Of Influence; Appendix B: Literature And Language: A Commentary; Index. Paul De Man; Introduction By Wlad Godzich. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Electronic Reproduction. Ipswich, Ma Available Via World Wide Web.