Bücher der Reihe Cultural Memory in the Present

Combining phenomenology and psychoanalysis in innovative ways, this book seeks to undo the binary opposition between appearance and existence that has been in place since Plato's parable of the cave.

This book analyzes the relation of public memory to history, forgetting, and selective memory in three late-twentieth-century cities that have confronted major social or political traumas-Berlin, Buenos Aires, and New York.

Jacques Derrida's repeatedly stated admiration and professed inability to comment on the workof Samuel Beckett are the point of departure for this book's exploration of the relation between philosophy and literature.