"Krell creates a remarkable interplay of meanings, allusions, andconnotations -- an interplay of multiple resonance which is finely tuned toDerrida's thought and which makes his essay as artful as it is conceptuallydisciplined. He is surely one of the most astute translators and readers incontemporary Continental thought." -- Charles E. Scott

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

PREFACE

Introduction

PART ONE

TYPOGRAPHY, ICONOGRAPHY, ENGRAMMATOLOGY

ONE. Slabs of Wax: Aristotle and Plato on Memory, Reminiscence, and Writing

Mneme, Lethe

Anamnesis

Typos

Eikon

Grammata

TWO. Waxen Glands and Fleshy Hollows: The Body of Memory from Descartes to Merleau-Ponty

August Mnemotechnic

Descartes

Hobbes and Locke

Coleridge, Erwin Straus, and Merleau-Ponty

THREE: Wax Magic: Freud and the Typography of Effraction

Memory, Malady, and Therapy

Quantity

Quality

"The Introduction of the 'Ego'"

Sign

Wax Magic

PART TWO

ON THE VERGE

FOUR. Of Tracings without Wax: The Early Work of Jacques Derrida

Scripture, Scription, Script

The Absolute Past

Plato's Dream

FIVE. Of Pits and Pyramids: Hegel on Memory, Remembrance, and Writing

The Situation of Erinnerung in Hegel's System

The Psychology of Erinnerung and Gedachtnis

Erinnerung and Gedachtnis in the Philosophical Propaedeutics of 1808

Er-Innerwung in the Phenomenology of Spirit

SIX. Of Having-Been: Heidegger and Nietzsche on the Time of Remembering and Forgetting

Forgetting Being

Remembering Time

Mnemosyne

Let Bygones Be Bygones

SEVEN. Of Ashes: The Promise of Memory in the Recent Thought of Jacques Derrida

Anamnesis, Amnesia, Affirmation

Impossible Mourning Possible

Gedachtnis and Andenken: In Memory of Hegel and Heidegger

Mirth

Ashes

NOTES

INDEX