Yet it is this entirely a-referential, a-phenomenal, a-pathetic formalism that will win out in the battle among affects and find access to the moral world of practical reason, practical law, and rational politics. [...] Theoreticians of literature who fear they may have deserted or betrayed the world by being too formalistic are worrying about the wrong thing: in the spirit of Kant’s third Critique, they were not nearly formalistic enough. – Paul de Man, “Kant’s Materialism” (128)

中文翻译：

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粘性，灵活，狂热，受阻：Àl'intérieur和恐怖的感觉

然而，正是这种完全的参照性，现象性，无情的形式主义将在情感之间的斗争中取胜，并能够找到实践理性，实践法律和理性政治的道德世界。[...]文学理论家担心自己可能因过于形式主义而抛弃或背叛了世界，他们担心的是错误的事情：按照康德的第三次批评精神，他们还不够正式。–保罗·德曼，“康德的唯物主义”（128）