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