/lit/ - Literature

> be Paul de Man
> make a career repeating Derrida (who only repeated Heidegger)
> "The self is a literary fiction."
> doesn't even have a Masters or a PHD, just weaseled his way into academic teaching posts
> writes a bunch of obscure bullshit that amounts to "Well, it's pretty hard to define 'define'"
> turns out he wrote pro-Nazi, anti-semitic newspaper articles during the war
> "Send 'em all to fucking Madagascar."
> turns around and is big buddies with a known Jew, Jacques Derrida
> ends up being huge influential among the gullible and easily influenced English departments
> DUDE, ALLEGORY LMAO
> set up the Hermes publishing house just so he could steal money from it
> "By that time de Man had emptied out almost 90 percent of the funds invested in the company. The investors included his father, and de Man’s old nurse, the woman who had cared for him as a child while his depressed mother neglected him and who now lost her life-savings."
> people find out he had a wife and kids he abandoned in south america for the glamourous life of a Post-Modern Professor of the Humanities
> he beat his kids too
> all sorts of anecdotes emerge about he was a self-absorbed lunatic with no discernible talent
> years later English departments and the Humanities in general have not recovered from the cancerous taint of post-structural philosophy

Deconstruction? Not even once.