Of Memory, Reminiscence, and Writing: On the Verge (Studies in Continental Thought) [Paperback]

David Farrell Krell (Author)

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Publication Date: September 22, 1990 | Series: Studies in Continental Thought

"Krell creates a remarkable interplay of meanings, allusions, and connotations—an 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." —Charles E. Scott

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"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

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• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Indiana University Press; First Edition edition (September 22, 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0253205921
• ISBN-13: 978-0253205926
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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This review is from: Of Memory, Reminiscence, and Writing: On the Verge (Studies in Continental Thought) (Hardcover)

I am quite familiar with books by Krell on Nietzsche and Heidegger. Near the end of this book, the idea of letting bygones be bygones is close to something about recapitulation in Heidegger being like something in Nietzsche on a herd of cows that is not aware of any time but the present. The three styles of history mentioned by Nietzsche in his Untimely Meditation on Uses and Abuses of History for Life, sometimes call advantages and disadvantages of history for life, are mentioned in connection with the importance of life. The association of Nietzsche's freedom unto death with the ideas in Freud's Beyond the Pleasure Principle made sense to me, but much of the history of philosophy on memory and forgetting as products of each other does not register with me as I approach the age of 63 with little anticipation that my mind will ever again do anything but regress. Twelve was the right age for me, and now, more than ever, the fifty years that a fool such as I spent trying to figure out adults from an intellectual perspective did not impress me, so I fail to feel on fire for this book.