Eugenio Donato
American university teacher (1937-1983)
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| Intro | American university teacher (1937-1983) | |
| Places | United States of America | |
| was | Educator | |
| Work field | Academia | |
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| Birth | 17 August 1937, Cyprus | |
| Death | 19 September 1983 (aged 46 years) |
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Eugenio Donato (1937–1983) was an Armenian-Italian deconstructionist, literary critic, and "philosophical critic". Raised in Egypt, and educated in France, he played an important role in teaching Americans how to read post-structural theory.
He edited, with Richard A. Macksey, the book The Structuralist Controversy: The Languages of Criticism and the Sciences of Man.
Donato died on September 19, 1983.