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rticularly the circumstances of his marriage and his difficult relationships with his children 41 in the most controversial and explicitly antisemitic essay from this wartime journalism titled jews in contemporary literature 1941 de man described how v ulgar anti semitism willingly takes pleasure in considering post war cultural phenomenon after the war of 14 18 as degenerate and decadent because they are enjewished 42 he notes that literature does not escape this lapidary judgement it is sufficient to discover a few jewish writers under latinized pseudonyms for all contemporary production to be considered polluted and evil this conception entails rather dangerous consequences it would be a rather unflattering appreciation of western writers to reduce them to being mere imitators of a jewish culture which is foreign to them 42 the article claimed that contemporary literature had not broken from tradition as a result of the first world war and that the jews cannot claim to have been its creators nor even to have exercised a preponderant influence over its development on any closer examination this influence appears to have extraordinarily little importance since one might have expected that given the specific characteristics of the jewish spirit the later would have played a more brilliant role in this artistic production 42 the article concluded that our civilization b y keeping in spite of semitic interference in all aspects of european life an intact originality and character has shown that its basic character is healthy it concluded that the creation of a jewish colony isolated from europe as a solution to the jewish problem would not entail any deplorable consequences for the literary life of the west 43 this is the only known article in which de man pronounced such views so openly though two or three other articles also accept without demurral the disenfranchisement and ostracization of jews as some contributors to responses have noted de man s colleagues students and contemporaries tried to respond to his early writings and his subsequent silence about them in the volume responses on paul de man s wartime journalism 44 edited by werner hamacher neil hertz and thomas keenan nebraska 1989 his longtime friend jacques derrida who was jewish published a long piece responding to de man s critics declaring to judge to condemn the work or the man on the basis of what was a brief episode to call for closing that is to say at least figuratively for censuring or burning his books is to reproduce the exterminating gesture which one accuses de man of not having armed himself against sooner with the necessary vigilance it is not even to draw a lesson that he de man learned to draw from the war 45 some readers objected to what they considered as derrida s effort to relate criticism of de man to the greater tragedy of extermination of the jews 46 fredric jameson lengthily defended de man in postmodernism or the cultural logic of late capitalism 1991 observing about de man s critics that it does not seem to me that north american intellectuals have generally had the kind of experience of history that would qualify them to judge the actions and choices of people under military occupation 47 according to jameson the efforts to implicate de man in the holocaust hinged on a fundamental misunderstanding of nazi antisemitism the exclusive emphasis on anti semitism ignores and politically neutralizes its other constitutive feature in the nazi period namely anticommunism the very possibility of the judeocide was absolutely at one with and inseparable from the anticommunist and radical right wing mission of national socialism but put this way it seems at once clear that deman was neither an anticommunist nor a right winger had he taken such positions in his student days they would have been public knowledge 47 turning to the content and ideology of de man s wartime journalism jameson contended that it was devoid of any personal originality or distinctiveness simply rehearsing corporatist commonplaces found in a broad range of european political movements from this jameson concluded that none of the wartime articles had any relevance to paul de man for whom the thing dramatically called collaboration was simply a job in a europe henceforth and for the foreseeable future united and german and who as long as i knew him personally was simply a good liberal 47 since the late 1980s some of de man s followers many of them jewish have pointed out that de man at no time in his life displayed personal animus against jews shoshana felman recounted that about a year after the journalistic publication of his compromising statement he and his wife sheltered for several days in their apartment the jewish pianist esther sluszny and her husband who were then illegal citizens in hiding from the nazis during this same period de man was meeting regularly with georges goriely a member of the belgian resistance according to goriely s own testimony he never for one minute feared denunciation of his underground activities by paul de man 48 jameson proposed that de man s apparent antisemitism was suffused with irony and properly interpreted served as a philosemitic parody and rebuke of conventional antisemitic tropes a but his disciples and defenders have failed to agree about the nature of de man s silence about his wartime activities his critics on the other hand point out that throughout his life de man was not only passively silent but also engaged in an active coverup through lies and misdirections about his past the question of de man s personal history has continued to fascinate scholars as evidenced by evelyn barish s 2014 biography the double life of paul de man 49 in an advance review published in harper s magazine christine smallwood concludes that de man as portrayed by barish was a slippery mr ripley a confidence man and a hustler who embezzled lied forged and arreared his way to intellectual acclaim 20 in response to these claims peter brooks who succeeded to de man s post as sterling professor at yale stated that some of barish s accusations were overblown identifying several errors in her footnotes one could do a review of barish s footnotes that would cast many doubts on her scholarship 22 for example he cites the footnote barish provides to support her claim that in 1942 de man planned to launch a nazi literary magazine i shared this information and it has since been previously published in belgian sources not now available to me noting that this sort of thing does not pass any sort of muster harvard professor louis menand on the other hand in his review in the new yorker finds barish s biography important and credible notwithstanding the presence of occasional errors and exaggerations menand writes h er book is a brief for the prosecution but it is not a hatchet job and she has an amazing tale to tell in her account all guns are smoking there are enough to stock a miniseries 50 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