Table of Contents

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

Reviews

"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