Silence, remembering, and forgetting in Wittgenstein, Cage, and Derrida

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Silence, remembering, and forgetting in Wittgenstein, Cage, and Derrida. / Hobuß, Steffi.
Beyond memory: Silence and the Aesthetics of Remembrance. ed. / Alexandre Dessingué; Jay Winter. New York: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2016. p. 95-110 6 (Routledge Approaches to History; Vol. 13).

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Harvard

Hobuß, S 2016, Silence, remembering, and forgetting in Wittgenstein, Cage, and Derrida. in A Dessingué & J Winter (eds), Beyond memory: Silence and the Aesthetics of Remembrance., 6, Routledge Approaches to History, vol. 13, Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, New York, pp. 95-110. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315688503

APA

Hobuß, S. (2016). Silence, remembering, and forgetting in Wittgenstein, Cage, and Derrida. In A. Dessingué, & J. Winter (Eds.), Beyond memory: Silence and the Aesthetics of Remembrance (pp. 95-110). Article 6 (Routledge Approaches to History; Vol. 13). Routledge Taylor & Francis Group. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315688503

Vancouver

Hobuß S. Silence, remembering, and forgetting in Wittgenstein, Cage, and Derrida. In Dessingué A, Winter J, editors, Beyond memory: Silence and the Aesthetics of Remembrance. New York: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group. 2016. p. 95-110. 6. (Routledge Approaches to History). doi: 10.4324/9781315688503

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