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Living Room and Attic, 1793-2013

390 boxes
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Collection Overview

Collection Description & Creator Information

Scope and Contents

Includes items not captured in the inventory but retrieved at the time of packing the Library for shipment to Princeton University Library. Items originate from the living room and attic, respectively, though which item came from which room is no longer known. A wide field of reading interests are represented in this series that may in part represent leisure reading in the Derrida household, including fiction and poetry, exhibit and museum catalogs, a small number of children's books, a variety of serial issues, as well as books relating to Judaism, Mythology, Religion, Literary Criticism, Psychology, World History, Literary History, Political Theory, the University, Architecture, Travel, Art, and others.

Arrangement

Divided into two groups of annotated and non-annotated books, respectively, before shipment to Princeton University Library. The exact location of these items in the house is unknown. They are arranged in approximate packing order within each group.

General

RBD1

Collection History

Processing Information

Processed based on dealer data using a database and XQuery workflow by Regine Heberlein and Donald Thornbury. Data entry and other invaluable assistance provided by Nick Williams '15 and Donald Thermesi.

Access & Use

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open for research.

Conditions Governing Use

Single copies may be made for research purposes. To cite or publish quotations that fall within Fair Use, as defined under U. S. Copyright Law, no permission is required. For instances beyond Fair Use, it is the responsibility of the researcher to determine whether any permissions related to copyright, privacy, publicity, or any other rights are necessary for their intended use of the Library's materials, and to obtain all required permissions from any existing rights holders, if they have not already done so. Princeton University Library's Special Collections does not charge any permission or use fees for the publication of images of materials from our collections, nor does it require researchers to obtain its permission for said use. The department does request that its collections be properly cited and images credited. More detailed information can be found on the Copyright, Credit and Citations Guidelines page on our website. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us through the Ask Us! form.

Credit this material:

Living Room and Attic; The Library of Jacques Derrida, House Series, RBD1-1, Rare Book Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library

Location:
Firestone Library
One Washington Road
Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
(609) 258-3184
Storage Note:
  • This is stored in multiple locations.
  • Firestone Library (ex): Boxes B-000244, B-000246 to B-000251, B-000253 to B-000254, B-000256 to B-000257, B-000260 to B-000261, B-000264 to B-000266, B-000269, B-000272, B-000274 to B-000277, B-000280 to B-000282, B-000302 to B-000304, B-000308, B-000326, B-000333, B-000335, B-000337, B-000340, B-000344, B-000360, B-000362, B-000372, B-000388, B-000390, B-000393 to B-000394, B-000396, B-000400 to B-000401, B-000403, B-000407, B-000410 to B-000411, B-000414, B-000420 to B-000421, B-000435, B-000437 to B-000438, B-000448, B-000459, B-000473, B-000486, B-000498, B-000525 to B-000526, B-000528, B-000530, B-000532 to B-000534, B-000538, B-000542, B-000545, B-000547 to B-000548, B-000556, B-000561 to B-000562, B-000564 to B-000568, B-000570 to B-000571, B-000576 to B-000578, B-000581, B-000583 to B-000584, B-000587 to B-000588, B-000590 to B-000613, B-000617 to B-000621, B-000627, B-000629, B-000632 to B-000634, B-000637, P-000027 to P-000028, P-000030 to P-000035
  • ReCAP (rcpxr): Boxes 146, 149 to 150, 155, 165, 171 to 172, 174, 176, 179 to 180, 182, 185, 188 to 189, 207, 209, 211, 215, 217, 219, 221, 223, 226, 228 to 229, 231, 233, 235, 239, 334, 337 to 338, 340 to 341, 354, 389, 392, 402, 409 to 410, 414, 426, 455, 467, 478 to 479, 488, 498, 515, 534, 542, 544, 549, 552, 587, 602, 616 to 617, 620, 628, 630 to 631, 636, 638 to 639, 641 to 642, 645, 650, 653, 655 to 656, 658, 661, 663, 666, 669 to 670, 672 to 673, 679, 682, 684, 687, 692, 694 to 695, 697 to 698, 700, 702, 705, 707, 711, 715, 718, 720, 726 to 727, 729, 732, 734 to 735, 737 to 738, 740 to 741, 743, 746, 748, 751, 753, 759, 761, 763, 770, 772 to 773, 775, 777, 779, 781, 784, 787, 789, 794, 796, 800, 803 to 804, 806 to 807, 809, 811, 814, 816, 819, 821, 823, 825, 827, 837, 839 to 840, 842, 844, 846, 860, 862, 864, 866, 874, 876, 878, 887, 891, 896, 898, 900, 902, 904, 914, 919, 921

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Related Materials

The bulk of Jacques Derrida's papers, including his student work, documents relating to his teaching, publications, and conference activities, and audio and video recordings are housed at the University of California Irvine as part of the Critical Theory Archive. For the online finding aid to the Jacques Derrida Papers at Irvine, click here.

A duplicate set of the manuscripts housed at Irvine is available under the collection name Fonds Jacques Derrida at the Institut mémoires de l'édition contemporaine. For the online finding aid at IMEC, click here.

Other Finding Aids

Click here to access the full inventory of the Studio series.

Separated Materials

At the time of acquisition, inserted material had been systematically removed from a subset of volumes and placed in a number of subject-based boxes and envelopes. Notes received by PUL from the dealer reflect this and are quoted in this finding aid in the interest of making the history of the collection's custodial interventions fully transparent.

All separated insertions received by PUL were re-inserted upon receipt of the collection in an effort to preserve archival context and service the collection as close as possible to its working state.

A small number of separated insertions were not received by PUL and are so identified in the finding aid.