...initial positions of the writer. De Man says, talking about Lukacs, Blanchot, Poulet, and New Criticism: The insight seems instead to have been gained from...point where it becomes emptied of substance, as if the very possibility of assertion had been put into question. Yet it is this negative, apparently destructive...

...meeting on a common level of discourse; the one always lay hidden within the other as the sun lies hidden within a shadow, or truth within error. The...point where it becomes emptied of substance, as if the very possibility of assertion had been put into question. Yet it is this negative, apparently destructive...

..."negative insight." De Man summarized this procedure at the beginning of "The Rhetoric of Blindness": The insight seems instead to have been gained from...point where it becomes emptied of substance, as if the very possibility of assertion had been put into question. 5 Like Paulhan, de Man pointed to "literature"...

...meeting on a common level of discourse; the one always lay hidden within the other as the sun lies hidden within a shadow, or truth within error. The...stand, perverting and dissolving his stated commitment 142 to the point where it becomes emptied of substance, as if the very possibility of assertion had...

...in the levei of explicitness prevented both statements from meeting on a common levei of discourse. The insight seems instead to have been gained from...movement that animates the critic's thought, an unstated principie that leads his language away from its asserted stand, perverting and dissolving his stated...