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Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression (Religion & Postmodernism (Paperback)) (Paperback)
$19.19 - Save $2.14 (10%) - RRP $21.33 Free delivery worldwide (to United States and
all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 24 hours | |Short Description for Archive FeverIn this work, Jacques Derrida guides the reader through an extended meditation on remembrance, religion, time, and technology - all occasioned by a deconstructive analysis of the notion of archiving.
Full description- Publisher: University of Chicago Press
- Published: 29 October 1998
- Format: Paperback 122 pages
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- Categories: Cultural Studies | Psychology | Social, Group Or Collective Psychology | Philosophy | Western Philosophy, From C 1900 - | Memory Improvement & Thinking Techniques
- ISBN 13: 9780226143675 ISBN 10: 0226143678
- Sales rank: 33,338
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Full description for Archive Fever
In this work, Jacques Derrida guides the reader through an extended meditation on remembrance, religion, time, and technology - all occasioned by a deconstructive analysis of the notion of archiving. The archival concept has played a pivotal role in numerous critical debates - a place of origin, yet of perpetuity, a place of stasis and order, yet of discovery, the notion of archive houses a complex of diverse, and often disparate, meanings. As a depository of civic record and social history whose very name derives from the Greek word for town hall, the archive would seem to be a public entity, yet it is stocked with the personal, even intimate, artifacts of private lives. This inherent tension between public and private inaugurates, argues Derrida, an inquiry into the human impulse to preserve, through technology as well as tradition, both a historical and a psychic past.
