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Beyond the Figure

Author(s): Moris Fadel
Subject(s): Philosophy, Language and Literature Studies, Semiotics / Semiology, Theoretical Linguistics, Aesthetics, Philology
Published by: Институт по философия и социология при БАН
Keywords: letter; figure; empirical reality; figurative meaning; literal meaning;

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the concept of the letter in its relation to the concept of figure. The research of the late Paul de Man is taken as a basis for the analysis of the letter. The author highlights an interesting twist in De Man. He is known as a theorist and apologist of the figure. It turns out, however, that in his later works De Man is more concerned with criticism of the figure, which does not mean returning to the traditional understandings of the correspondence between language and empirical reality.

  • Issue Year: XXIX/2020
  • Issue No: 5
  • Page Range: 54-59
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Bulgarian