Archive Fever - A Freudian Impression

In Archive Fever, Jacques Derrida deftly guides us through an extended meditation on remembrance, religion, time, and technology-fruitfully occasioned by a deconstructive analysis of the notion of archiving. Intrigued by the evocative relationship between technologies of inscription and psychic processes, Derrida offers for the first time a major statement on the pervasive impact of electronic media, particularly e-mail, which threaten to transform the entire public and private space of humanity. Plying this rich material with characteristic virtuosity, Derrida constructs a synergistic reading of archives and archiving, both provocative and compelling."Judaic mythos, Freudian psychoanalysis, and e-mail all get fused into another staggeringly dense, brilliant slab of scholarship and suggestion."-The Guardian"[Derrida] convincingly argues that, although the archive is a public entity, it nevertheless is the repository of the private and personal, including even intimate details."-Choice"Beautifully written and clear."-Jeremy Barris, Philosophy in Review"Translator Prenowitz has managed valiantly to bring into English a difficult but inspiring text that relies on Greek, German, and their translations into French."-Library Journal

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• Authors: Deceased Jacques (Ecole Pratique Des Haut Derrida, Deceased Jacques (Ecole Pratique des Hautes-Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris) Derrida, Jacques Derrida, Jacques (Ecole Pratique Des Hautes-Etudes Derrida, Jacques (Ecole Pratique des Hautes-Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris) Derrida, Eric Prenowitz
• Assisted by: Eric Prenowitz (Translation), Professor Eric (University of Leeds) Prenowitz (Translation), Prenowitz Eric (Translation)
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2017
• EAN: 9780226502359
• ISBN: 978-0-226-50235-9
• No. of pages: 128
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 215 mm x 5 mm
• Series: Religion and Postmodernism; Religion and Postmodernism; Religion and Postmodernism Series; Religion and Postmodernism Series (CHUP); Religion & Postmodernism Series RP (CHUP)
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; History of Ideas, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / Religious, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, Philosophy, RELIGION / Philosophy, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Western philosophy from c 1800, Philosophy of religion