Ghostly demarcations : a symposium on Jacques Derrida's Specters of Marx / introduced by Michael Sprinker.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sprinker, Michael.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Derrida, Jacques. Spectres of Marx.

Derrida, Jacques.

Socialism.

Communism.

Deconstruction.

Physical Description:

278 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Verso, 1999.

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.

In a timely intervention in one of today's most vital theoretical debates, the contributors to Ghostly Demarcations respond to the distinctive program projected by Specters of Marx. The volume features sympathetic meditations on the relationship between Marxism and deconstruction by Fredric Jameson, Werner Hamacher, Antonio Negri, Warren Montag, and Rastko Mocnik, brief polemical reviews by Terry Eagleton and Pierre Macherey, and sustained political critiques by Tom Lewis and Aijaz Ahmad. The volume concludes with Derrida's reply to his critics in which he sharpens his views about the vexed relationship between Marxism and deconstruction.

Contents:

1 The Specter's Smile / Antonio Negri 5

2 Marx Dematerialized, or the Spirit of Derrida / Pierre Macherey 17

3 Marx's Purloined Letter / Fredric Jameson 26

4 Spirits Armed and Unarmed: Derrida's Specters of Marx / Warren Montag 68

5 Marxism without Marxism / Terry Eagleton 83

6 Reconciling Derrida: 'Specters of Marx' and Deconstructive Politics / Aijaz Ahmad 88

7 After the Fall: Through the Fogs of the 18th Brumaire of the Eastern Springs / Rastko Mocnik 110

8 The Politics of 'Hauntology' in Derrida's Specters of Marx / Tom Lewis 134

9 Lingua Amissa: The Messianism of Commodity-Language and Derrida's Specters of Marx / Werner Hamacher 168

10 Marx & Sons / Jacques Derrida 213.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1859847099

1859842089

OCLC:

43875552