Of Memory, Reminiscence, and Writing

"Krell creates a remarkable interplay of meanings, allusions, and connotationsoan interplay of multiple resonance which is finely tuned to Derrida's thought and which makes his essay as artful as it is conceptually disciplined. He is surely one of the most astute translators and readers in contemporary Continental thought." oCharles E. Scott

• ACKNOWLEDGMENTSPREFACEIntroductionPART ONETYPOGRAPHY, ICONOGRAPHY, ENGRAMMATOLOGYONE. Slabs of Wax: Aristotle and Plato on Memory, Reminiscence, and WritingMneme, LetheAnamnesisTyposEikonGrammataTWO. Waxen Glands and Fleshy Hollows: The Body of Memory from Descartes to Merleau-PontyAugust MnemotechnicDescartesHobbes and LockeColeridge, Erwin Straus, and Merleau-PontyTHREE: Wax Magic: Freud and the Typography of EffractionMemory, Malady, and TherapyQuantityQuality"The Introduction of the 'Ego'"SignWax MagicPART TWOON THE VERGEFOUR. Of Tracings without Wax: The Early Work of Jacques DerridaScripture, Scription, ScriptThe Absolute PastPlato's DreamFIVE. Of Pits and Pyramids: Hegel on Memory, Remembrance, and WritingThe Situation of Erinnerung in Hegel's SystemThe Psychology of Erinnerung and GedachtnisErinnerung and Gedachtnis in the Philosophical Propaedeutics of 1808Er-Innerwung in the Phenomenology of SpiritSIX. Of Having-Been: Heidegger and Nietzsche on the Time of Remembering and ForgettingForgetting BeingRemembering TimeMnemosyneLet Bygones Be BygonesSEVEN. Of Ashes: The Promise of Memory in the Recent Thought of Jacques DerridaAnamnesis, Amnesia, AffirmationImpossible Mourning PossibleGedachtnis and Andenken: In Memory of Hegel and HeideggerMirthAshesNOTESINDEX