Title Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Legacies of Paul de Man / Marc Redfield -- Part I: Reading -- Double-Take: Reading de Man and Derrida Writing on Tropes / Cynthia Chase -- Reading, Begging, Paul de Man / Jan Mieszkowski -- Part II: Reading History -- History against Historicism, Formal Matters, and the Event of the Text: de Man with Benjamin / Ian Balfour -- Discontinuous Shifts: History Reading History / Andrzej Warminski -- Part III: Institutions of Pedagogy -- ''At the Far End of This Ongoing Enterprise...'' / Sara Guyer -- Professing Literature: John Guillory's Misreading of Paul de Man / Marc Redfield -- Part IV: Theory, Materiality, and the Aesthetic -- Thinking Singularity with Immanuel Kant and Paul de Man: Aesthetics, Epistemology, History, and Politics / Arkady Plotnitsky -- Seeing Is Reading / Rei Terada -- Appendix 1: Courses Taught by Paul de Man during the Yale Era / Marc Redfield -- Appendix 2: Paul de Man, ''Course Proposal: Literature Z'' -- Contributors -- Notes -- Index.