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Title: SUCH a one-star book!
Review: I was so happy to see the "Not worth the cost" review. My only A+ in grad school was a paper slamming this sorry little book. I remember Edmundson's going on for pages about how terrible Paul de Man supposedly is, and then, when it came time to illustrate WHY PdM is so bad ... Edmundson does a reading of a Wordsworth poem in what he claims is the manner of De Man, instead of looking at one of De Man's own readings! And yet this guy is a Professor ... further evidence that English is not a "discipline."The title should be "Pragmatism Against Literature and Philosophy." I think Edmundson has his heart in the right place, but he appears to've been spending too much time around Richard Rorty, literally and on the page.
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