Paul De ManThinkers

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

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Fashion is like the ashes left behind by the uniquely shaped flames of the fire, the trace alone revealing that a fire actually took place.

Hermeneutics is a process directed toward the determination of meaning.

Interpretation is nothing but the possibility of error.

Love is that which, if not for novels no one would know of.

Metonymy is associated with chance if metaphor is associated with necessity.

Modernity is a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier. in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure.

Poetry is the use of language not to confirm what was before (which is the function of words) but to name that which has not yet been named. as an established signs to confirm that something is recognized as being the same as before; and re-cognition excludes pure origination. But in poetic language words are not used as signs, not even as names, but in order to name.