Specters of Marx : the state of the debt, the work of mourning, and the new international
Jacques Derrida (Author), Peggy Kamuf (Translator)
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 that there is more than one spirit of Marx and that it is the responsibility of his heirs--we are all heirs of Marx--to sift through the possible legacies, the possible spirits, reaffirming one and not the other. He leads beyond the deafening disavowal of Marx today, a disavowal he sees as an attempt to exorcise Marx's ghost
Print Book, English, 1994
Routledge, New York, 1994