de Man

American  

[duh man, mahn] / də ˈmæn, ˈmɑn /

noun

1. Paul, 1919–83, U.S. literary critic and theorist, born in Belgium.

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de-man British  

verb

1. to reduce the workforce of (a plant, industry, etc)

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Example Sentences

“Nuestro principal mercado es Estados Unidos”, dijo Chan, director ejecutivo de la subsidiaria mexicana de Man Wah.

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Mr. Karatani has been a visiting professor at Columbia University and Yale University, where he was a contemporary of the eminent critics and theorists Paul de Man and Fredric Jameson.

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At Hopkins, he founded one of the country’s first interdisciplinary academic departments and organized the 1966 conference “The Languages of Criticism and the Sciences of Man,” which included the first stateside lectures by the theorists Jacques Derrida, Roland Barthes, Jacques Lacan and Paul de Man.

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The renowned philosopher Martin Heidegger was a Nazi Party member and Paul de Man, a deconstructionist literary theorist, wrote for pro-Nazi publications.

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But “the moment people tell us it’s impossible, of course we have the reflex to say, ‘Let’s do it,’” said Mr. De Man, whose firm went on to work with Grown.bio to develop just such a material.

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