He discussed the presence of both sex and philosophy in Friedrich Schlegel's novel Lucinde in his essay "The Concept of Irony.
This thinker discussed the trope of "prosopopeia," which he called the "fiction of the voice-from-beyond-the-grave" in his essay "Autobiography as Defacement." He analyzed the decision of a certain philosopher to introduce the idea of zero in order to preserve the "homogeniety of the universe," only to create a fundamental heterogeneity, in his essay "Pascal's Allegory of Passion." He discussed the presence of both sex and philosophy in Friedrich Schlegel's novel Lucinde in his essay "The Concept of Irony." Both of those essays are in his posthumous collection The Aesthetic Ideology, while he argued that "Resistance to Theory" is theory itself in another essay, and included the above essay on irony in his The Rhetoric of Romanticism. FTP, name this author of Blindness and Insight, a theorist born in Belgium who became a good buddy of Jacques Derrida and a leader of Deconstruction.
This thinker discussed the trope of "prosopopeia," which he called the "fiction of the voice-from-beyond-the-grave" in his essay "Autobiography as Defacement."
{Paul de Man}