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Specters of Marx (edit title/settings)

The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning and the New International

by Jacques Derrida (Author) (edit contributors)

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Written in the aftermath of the fall of the Berlin Wall and within the context of a critique of a "new world order" that proclaims the death of Marx and Marxism, Jacques Derrida undertakes a reading of Marx's "spectropoetics" -- his obsession with ghosts, specters and spirits. Derrida argues... read more

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dare to speak of a spirit of Marx, or more serious still, of a spirit of Marxism. Not only in order to predict a future for them today, but to appeal even to their multiplicity, or more serious still, to their heterogeneity.

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  1. Jacques Derrida (Author)

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