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Archive fever : a Freudian impression

In his latest work, Jacques Derrida deftly guides us through an extended meditation on remembrance, religion, time, and technology - all fruitfully occasioned by a deconstructive analysis of the notion of archiving. The archival concept has of late played a pivotal role in critical debate. A place of origin, yet of perpetuity, a place of stasis and order, yet of discovery, the notion of archive houses a fascinating complex of diverse, and often disparate, meanings
Print Book, English, 1996
University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1996
113 pages ; 22 cm.
9780226143361, 9780226143675, 0226143368, 0226143678
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EXERGUE
7(18)
PREAMBLE
25(8)
FORWARD
33(50)
THESES
83(14)
POSTSCRIPT
97(6)
TRANSLATOR'S NOTE103(10)
WORKS CITED113
Originally presented as a lecture June 5, 1994, at an international colloquium entitled: Memory : the Question of Archives in London, England