Archiving otherwise : some remarks on memory and historical responsibility

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dc.contributor.author	Vosloo, Robert
dc.date.accessioned	2011-06-14T10:27:15Z
dc.date.available	2011-06-14T10:27:15Z
dc.date.issued	2005
dc.identifier.citation	Vosloo, R. 2005,'Archiving otherwise : some remarks on memory and historical responsibility', Studia Historiae Ecclesiasticae, Vol. XXXI, no. 2, October, pp. 379-399.	en
dc.identifier.issn	1017-0499
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10500/4357
dc.description	Peer reviewed	en
dc.description.abstract	This essay seeks to contribute to the ongoing discussion on memory, historiography and archiving by engaging Jacques Derrida’s influential book Archive fever: A Freudian impression. The first part of the essay deals with Derrida’s reflections on the word ‘archive’, as well as his discussion of the possibility of the destruction of the archive through the death drive and his argument about the archive and the openness towards the future. The rest of the essay aims, in conversation with Derrida, at reconfiguring archival passion as a passion for the past, a passion for justice and a passion for the future.	en
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.publisher	Church History Society of Southern Africa	en
dc.subject	Archiving
dc.subject	Historiography
dc.title	Archiving otherwise : some remarks on memory and historical responsibility	en
dc.type	Article	en