The ideology of deconstruction

pp. 66-87

in: Robert Grant, Imagining the real, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2003

Abstract

A few years back the Yale deconstructionist Paul de Man was posthumously discovered to have written repeatedly for a Belgian collaborationist journal during the Nazi occupation. So far as I am aware, de Man in his American period espoused no particular politics. Indeed, the Left frequently regarded this as a cause for complaint, since most of them (to some extent rightly, as we shall see) thought ofde Man and deconstruction as being their natural allies.