The Resistance to TheoryISBN: 9780816682034Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Minnesota PressDigital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Criticism -- Addresses essays lectures; Literature -- Philosophy -- Addresses essays lectures; In a brilliant collection of essays, de Man explores his views, that, the resistance to theory is inherent in the theoretical enterprise itself, and the real debate is with its own methodological assumptions and possibilities.