Antropología y discurso: la contradicción realizativa como principio hermenéutico en Paul de Man
Year: 1996
Type: article
Abstract: In the last period of his critical production, Paul de Man employs the pragmatic distinction constative-performative, first introduced by Austin. He uses it in such an anomalous way that further critical inspection becomes necessary. The result is an outline of de Man's hermeneutic enterprise, characterized by the ambiguous and shifty use of critical categories such as grammar and rhetoric. In a presumed evolution of his critical positions, he reintroduces the distinction constative-performative within the rhetorical dimension of language, generating an aporetic dialectic that accounts for an instance of contradiction (performative contradiction), as his major hermeneutic principle. In this perspective, tropological discourse analysis and deconstructive hermeneutics coalesce in his reading of philosophical and literary texts, creating the space of a fascinating textual an-thropo-logy: the reduction of the author to a trope within his own text. 1. CONSTATIVE-PERFORMATIVE
Author: Julián Jiménez Heffernan
Language: Spanish
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1848534304