Paul Adolph Michel Deman (later de Man) (December 6, 1919 – December 21, 1983) was a Belgian-born deconstructionist literary critic and theorist. De Man elaborated a distinct deconstruction in his philosophically-oriented literary criticism of Romanticism.
A young doctor of philosophy in English was able to secure a job as part of a road deconstruction gang after intelligently answering a question about Paul de Man. Furthermore, de Man's principals were instrumental in the deconstruction gang's work.[1]
