Ghostly Demarcations : A Symposium on Jacques Derrida's Spectres of Marx

by Sprinker, Michael

• ISBN13: 9781859847091
• ISBN10: 1859847099
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-07-17
• Publisher: Verso

Summary

With the publication of Specters of Marx in 1993, Jacques Derrida redeemed a long-standing pledge to confront Marx's texts directly and in detail. His characteristically bravura presentation provided a provocative re-reading of the classics in the Western tradition and posed a series of challenges to Marxism.

Author Biography

Jacques Derrida is Director of Studies at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. He is the author of numerous books on philosophy, politics, and literature, including Politics of Friendship from Verso. Michael Sprinker is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is the author of History and Ideology in Proust and Imaginary Relations, both from Verso.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	vii
Introduction	1	(4)
Michael Sprinker
The Specter's Smile	5	(12)
Antonio Negri
Marx Dematerialized, or the Spirit of Derrida	17	(9)
Pierre Macherey
Marx's Purloined Letter	26	(42)
Fredric Jameson
Spirits Armed and Unarmed: Derrida's Specters of Marx	68	(15)
Warren Montag
Marxism without Marxism	83	(5)
Terry Eagleton
Reconciling Derrida: `Specters of Marx' and Deconstructive Politics	88	(22)
Aijaz Ahmad
After the Fall: Through the Fogs of the 18th Brumaire of the Eastern Springs	110	(24)
Rastko Mocnik
The Politics of `Hauntology' in Derrida's Specters of Marx	134	(34)
Tom Lewis
Lingua Amissa: The Messianism of Commodity-Language and Derrida's Specters of Marx	168	(45)
Werner Hamacher
Marx & Sons	213	(57)
Jacques Derrida
Index	270