Paul de Man (1919–1983)

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1. Jacques Derrida

   Author of Of Grammatology, Dissemination, The Truth in Painting

2. Paul de Man

   Author of Blindness and Insight: Essays in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticism, Allegories of Reading: Figural Language in Rousseau, Nietzsche, Rilke, and Proust, The Rhetoric of Romanticism

3. Walter Benjamin

   Author of Illuminations, Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings, Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Volume 1, 1913-1926 (Walter Benjamin)

4. Gilles Deleuze

   Author of Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, Difference and Repetition, The Logic of Sense

5. Jean-Francois Lyotard

   Author of The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge, The Differend: Phrases in Dispute, The Inhuman: Reflections on Time

6. Maurice Blanchot

   Author of The Space of Literature: A Translation of "L'Espace litteraire", The Writing of the Disaster, The Gaze of Orpheus: And Other Literary Essays

7. Roland Barthes

   Author of The Pleasure of the Text, Image-Music-Text, Writing Degree Zero

8. Michel Foucault

   Author of The order of things: an archaeology of the human sciences, Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason, The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception

9. Fredric Jameson

   Author of Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, The Political Unconscious, Marxism and Form

10. Julia Kristeva

    Author of Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection, Desire in Language: A Semiotic Approach to Literature and Art, Revolution in Poetic Language (European Perspectives Series)

11. Giorgio Agamben

    Author of Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life, The Coming Community, Potentialities: Collected Essays in Philosophy

12. Jonathan Culler

    Author of On Deconstruction: Theory and Criticism after Structuralism, Structuralist Poetics: Structuralism, Linguistics, and the Study of Literature, The Pursuit of Signs: Semiotics, Literature, Deconstruction

13. Harold Bloom

    Author of The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry, A Map of Misreading: With a New Preface, Deconstruction And Criticism

14. Jacques Lacan

    Author of Ecrits: A Selection, The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis

15. Georges Bataille

    Author of Accursed Share, Vol. 1: Consumption, Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927-1939 (Theory and History of Literature, Vol 14), Literature and Evil

16. Christopher Norris

    Author of Deconstruction: Theory and Practice, Derrida, Paul De Man, Deconstruction and the Critique of Aesthetic Ideology

17. Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe

    Author of The Literary Absolute: The Theory of Literature in German Romanticism (Suny Series : Intersections : Philosophy and Crit, Typography: Mimesis, Philosophy, Politics (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)

18. Barbara Johnson

    Author of The Critical Difference: Essays in the Contemporary Rhetoric of Reading, A World of Difference

19. Mikhail Bakhtin

    Author of The Dialogic Imagination: Four essays by M.M. Bakhtin, Rabelais and His World

20. Gerard Genette

    Author of Narrative Discourse: An Essay in Method, Mimologics (Stages)