(December 6, 1919-December 21, 1983)
Resided in New York and Connecticut
Wrote 'Les exégèses de Hölderlin par Martin Heidegger (1955),' 'Blindness and Insight (1971),' 'Allegories of Reading (1979),' 'The Rhetoric of Romanticism (published posthumously, 1984),' 'The Resistance to Theory (published posthumously, 1986)' and 'Aesthetic Ideology (published posthumously, 1988)'
Friend and protégé of Jacques Derrida

He liked to make other critics look stupid.
He had to flee Europe because he was wanted for fraud.
He abandoned a wife and three children to come to the United States.
He married one of his students without obtaining a divorce.
He lied about who his father was.
He was once accused of being a Nazi, but denied it.
After he died, it was revealed that he collaborated with the Nazis in occupied Belgium.
He wrote nearly 300 essays saying that Jews and other 'degenerate' races couldn't be good writers or artists.

He was one of the most influential academics of the 1970's.
Many colleagues and students tried to defend him of the Nazi allegations.
He was fluent in five languages (including German, of course).
He died of cancer in his early sixties.
Despite his personal reputation being utterly destroyed, his theories are still taught today.

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