Synopsis
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 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.
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About the Author
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 was 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.
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