Paul de Man (1919-1983) held appointments at Cornell, Johns Hopkins, the University of Zurich, and Yale. Among his books are Blindness and Insight (Minnesota, 1983), The Resistance to Theory (Minnesota, 1986), Critical Writings ,1953-1978 (Minnesota, 1993), and Allegories of Reading (1979). Andrzej Warminski is professor of comparative literature at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of Readings in Interpretation (Minnesota, 1987) and the forthcoming Material Inscriptions.

• Introduction: allegories of reference; the epistemolgy of metaphor; Pascal's allegory of persuasion; phenomenality and materiality in Kant; sign and symbol in Hegel's "Aesthetics"; Hegel on the sublime; Kant's materialism; Kant and Schiller; the concept of irony; reply to Raymond Geuss.

Paul de Man (1919-1983) held appointments at Cornell, Johns Hopkins, the University of Zurich, and Yale. Among his books are Blindness and Insight (Minnesota, 1983), The Resistance to Theory (Minnesota, 1986), Critical Writings ,1953-1978 (Minnesota, 1993), and Allegories of Reading (1979). Andrzej Warminski is professor of comparative literature at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of Readings in Interpretation (Minnesota, 1987) and the forthcoming Material Inscriptions.

• Introduction: allegories of reference; the epistemolgy of metaphor; Pascal's allegory of persuasion; phenomenality and materiality in Kant; sign and symbol in Hegel's "Aesthetics"; Hegel on the sublime; Kant's materialism; Kant and Schiller; the concept of irony; reply to Raymond Geuss.

Paul de Man (1919-1983) held appointments at Cornell, Johns Hopkins, the University of Zurich, and Yale. Among his books are Blindness and Insight (Minnesota, 1983), The Resistance to Theory (Minnesota, 1986), Critical Writings ,1953-1978 (Minnesota, 1993), and Allegories of Reading (1979). Andrzej Warminski is professor of comparative literature at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of Readings in Interpretation (Minnesota, 1987) and the forthcoming Material Inscriptions.

• Introduction: allegories of reference; the epistemolgy of metaphor; Pascal's allegory of persuasion; phenomenality and materiality in Kant; sign and symbol in Hegel's "Aesthetics"; Hegel on the sublime; Kant's materialism; Kant and Schiller; the concept of irony; reply to Raymond Geuss.