Specters of Marx: The State of the Debt, The Work of Mourning & the New International (Routledge Classics) 1st Edition

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Prodigiously influential, Jacques Derrida gave rise to a comprehensive rethinking of the basic concepts and categories of Western philosophy in the latter part of the twentieth century, with writings central to our understanding of language, meaning, identity, ethics and values.

In 1993, a conference was organized around the question, 'Whither Marxism?’, and Derrida was invited to open the proceedings. His plenary address, 'Specters of Marx', delivered in two parts, forms the basis of this book. Hotly debated when it was first published, a rapidly changing world and world politics have scarcely dented the relevance of this book.

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Linking Hamlet's ghost with the opening of the Communist Manifesto, the noted French philosopher (Aporias, LJ 2/15/94) meditates on the state and future of Marxism since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Developing two highly expanded lectures, Derrida notes that the current talk of the "new world order" and "the end of history" is the recurrence of a old debate, an attempt to exorcise the "spirit" represented by Marxism, just as Marx was concerned with the "ghosts" and "conjuring" of capitalism. Derrida argues that the deconstructive doctrine of "differance" and Marxism as an act posit many Marxisms. It is therefore the interpreter's duty to preserve the spirit of Marxism by pursuing the ghosts and laying bare the conjurings. This is Derrida's first major statement on Marx; an important book for academic collections.
T.L. Cooksey, Armstrong State Coll., Savannah, Ga.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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"Its importance within the Derridean canon cannot be overemphasized ... The text that scholars turn to ... to understand the politics of deconstruction." – Southern Humanities Review

"One of Derrida's best books." – New Statesman and Society

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Paperback: 258 pages
Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (May 25, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0415389577
ISBN-13: 978-0415389570
Product Dimensions: 5.1 x 0.6 x 7.8 inches
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this book is sick as hell

September 14, 2016

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i really appreciated how derrida goes into like multiple spectral concepts surrounding marxism

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Dr. Viteazu

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Deconstruct to rebuild a revolutionary prospect

February 2, 2012

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Jacques Derrida found the metaphysical link between the thoughts of Marx and the legacy he left for the marxists: spectrality. Beyond messianism and indoctrination, the way forward for dialectical-based philosophical, political and economic constructs must take in consideration all changes that happened in the multiplicity of social assemblages and the advent of post-structuralist thought that opened up the possibilities of considering the proper relation of virtuality and the discourse of reality. A must read for anybody who have really read Marx and cares for the legacy of his complex philosophical body of work in attempting to enlighten ways of revolutionary solutions for contemporary concrete world problems.

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Mad.

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It is a very important book

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Terry Fugate

perhaps his most accessible work

November 28, 2014

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Having met with Bishop Tutu following the fall of the Berlin wall, I asked him where do you go from here? He said he didn't know. Derrida struggles with the same issue with his usual brilliance and linguistic finesse.

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Thomas Kennon

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January 20, 2014

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Derrida can be dense, elliptical - maddening. And I love him. This later work is as clear and clean and persuasive as I've ever read.

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Naoto Kamouchi

Excellent piece digitised now

January 15, 2013

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This is a piece of writing that I longed to read in digital for the essential reason that it itself unfolds.
Spectres would erase themselves on the devices more realistically than on books.
The effect of reading, believe it or not, would be different on paper from that on display. The proof of this requires the right content, and this book is one of those.

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starker thug pluggers

sharing confusion while waiting to dance on more graves

Because I am looking for unlikely ways to be funny, I want to be so outrageous, I am reading a book in which Jacques Derrida spoke at Riverside, California on April 22-23, 1993,...Read more

Published 6 months ago

Casel

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magari

Important text, but Routledge screwed up

Routledge screwed up here. The page numbers in the 2006 version of Specters do not match the original 1994 edition.Read more

Published on November 30, 2015

Steven H Propp

THE FOUNDER OF DECONSTRUCTION LOOKS AT MARX AND MARXISM

Jacques Derrida (1930–2004) was a French philosopher and writer, best known for developing a form of semiotic analysis known as “Deconstruction.Read more

Published on March 16, 2015

Rusty Gentry

An Essential Read for Would Be Intellectual Prophets

To begin, there is just far too much in this text to do it justice in such a setting. Thus, I will pick and chose based on the complaints I have seen others tossing at this...Read more

Published on May 12, 2010

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