DeMan’s ascetic aesthetics contrast sharply with Barthes’ sensuous indulgence

Evidence

Juxtaposed with someone like Roland Barthes, DeMan’s puritanism takes on virtually Platonic proportions (save for the latter’s social plans for art itself), alongside which a Barthes then comes to seem the very epitome of irresponsible self-indulgence and the surrender to delusion. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 560

Categorization

• XREF: A useful binary frame for contrasting two poststructuralist figures — good scaffolding for teaching a cognitive map of theoretical positions. — connects to: Renan prized sterile scholarly happiness over embodied sexual pleasure — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 378; DeMan’s ascetic view links Romanticism to modernism through continuity rather than rupture. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 552
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Renan prized sterile scholarly happiness over embodied sexual pleasure — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 378; DeMan’s ascetic view links Romanticism to modernism through continuity rather than rupture. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 552