Ghostly Demarcations

A Symposium on Jacques Derrida’s 'Specters of Marx'

Michael Sprinker

• Publisher: Verso
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN:
  9781844672110
• eBook ISBN:
  9781789603613
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Philosophy History & Theory

With the publication of Specters of Marx in 1993, Jacques Derrida redeemed a longstanding 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 M?cnik, 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.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Halftitle Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• 1. The Specter’s Smile
• 2. Marx Dematerialized, or the Spirit of Derrida
• 3. Marx’s Purloined Letter
• 4. Spirits Armed and Unarmed: Derrida’s Specters of Marx
• 5. Marxism without Marxism
• 6. Reconciling Derrida: ‘Specters of Marx’ and Deconstructive Politics
• 7. After the Fall: Through the Fogs of the 18th Brumaire of the Eastern Springs
• 8. The Politics of ‘Hauntology’ in Derrida’s Specters of Marx
• 9. Lingua Amissa: The Messianism of Commodity-Language and Derrida’s Specters of Marx
• 10. Marx & Sons
• Notes
• Index