Archive fever

Autori

• Jacques Derrida

Parametri

• 128 pagine
• 5 ore di lettura

• Filosofia
• Psicologia
• Saggistica
• Storia
• Teorie Scientifiche

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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. It is this inherent tension between public and private which inaugurates, for Derrida, an inquiry into the human impulse to preserve, through technology as well as tradition, both a historical and a psychic past. What emerges is a marvelous expansive work, engaging at once Judaic mythos, Freudian psychoanalysis, and Marxist materialism in a profound reflection on the real, the unreal, and the virtual.

Lingua: Inglese

Pubblicato: 1996

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