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Title: Ghostly Demarcations: A Symposium on Jacques Derrida's "Specters of Marx" by Michael Sprinker ISBN: 1-85984-208-9 Publisher: Verso Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A good supplement to Specters of Marx
Comment: For those of us initially frustrated by Derrida's refusal, in Specters of Marx, to engage seriously with Marx and/or with politics, this book will not alleviate the problem. In fact, it exacerbates the frustration, but it does so in a way that may help to clarify the debate around the book. A decent selection of views and reviews on Specters of Marx (but missing the crucial review by Gayatri Spivak) is followed by Derrida's astonishingly petulant reply. Choosing sides becomes easier, even for the avowed deconstructionist, when Derrida's own pettiness makes it clear that (just as with Marxism) it is clearly possible to partake of a "Derrideanism without Derrida," and in so doing subtract the insularity of the man from the suggestiveness of the work. We readers will have to carry deconstructive Marxism farther than Derrida. But this supplement is always the condition of reading.
Rating: 5
Summary: Reading and Misreading Derrida
Comment: It is quite fundamental for the reader to understand that the main focus of Specters of Marx is spectrality and its attendant ideological implications, rather than Marx. One cannot read Derrida politically without misrepresenting his ideas. It is quite ironic that a number of Derrida's critics, particularly coming from the Marxist field, fall back on the dilapidated model of dialectics, and hence binary oppositions. Marx's ontology is forever tainted by the hauntological presence of the other. Derrida suggests that we examine the processes rather than the end products. This collection of essays, ranging from ridiculous to the sublime, is a response to the ideas set forward in Specters. It is very useful in approaching the text from a number of different angles.
Rating: 5
Summary: Derrida never claimed to be a Marxist,-what's the fuss?
Comment: Fred Engels said once that each generation of philosophers try arduously to soar higher in the sky than the previous, and here although one can see the value in the Left engaging with such a formidable thinker as Derrida, I would think the Left had better things to do,like the set of probelmatics concerning the globalization/exploitation of international labour,the eroding of the democratic state,the banality of neo-liberalism and its future. Perhaps the ultimate question here is what value emits itself after we read the various brilliant but ultimately marginal excursions/commentary into Derrida's work "Spectres of Marx". Derrida never claimed to be a Marxist and it is self-evident that he is merely attempting to arrest Marxism as countless others have, expunging it away,diluting its content from the level of intellectual discourse it rightly deserves. Derrida's body of work takened wholly refuses the content of such an arduous task ,being continually directly referred backwards to Heidegger and an affinity of the durational frame of the past reprisals into "what was" rather than what can be. Jameson's piece from a few years ago is the most comprehensive here, for he is always an excellent assembler of varigated,yet focused tracking like with a conceptual microscope the intellectual history of Derrida's thought. But Derrida's response to Jameson's response where Jameson's had erroneous placed the aesthetic in the field of play is a good example of indulgent useless bickering. Of course Derrida denies that the aesthetic is an integral component of his thought although he depends upon it continuously for his performative acts at creating new jargons,the conceptual 'writing' freedoms and cross genres (is this literature,a lecture- sketch, or philosophy, or art??) and incessant cross and inter-breeding of thoughts,fragments of excerpts, half-references to the Western panoply of thought from Freud,Heidegger etc. I think that is the ultimate problem with Derrida,he cannot convincingly deny any perspective,(although he has say obviously the opposite in interviews) in that his work seems to ascribe to conceptual indulgences and playfullness. Eagleton is also brilliant here and takes the more New Left perspective,which is old now, which still has vibrant points which again ultimately ponders the relationship of Marxism to various other ideological departures as deconstruction,Messianism and post-structuralism.I think ultimately we are barking up the wrong tree here for ultimately the lens which Derrida looks through(his body of thought) is so far removed from the problematics which Marxism(defined here in it's widest liberal sense) has developed throughout its long and tortured history,that again there are indeed larger dimensions to pursue.
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Title: Specters of Marx: The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning, and the New International by Jacques Derrida, Peggy Kamuf, Bernd Magnus ISBN: 0415910455 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: October, 1994 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Marx Beyond Marx by Antonio Negri ISBN: 093675625X Publisher: Autonomedia Pub. Date: 01 June, 1989 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The Psychic Life of Power: Theories in Subjection by Judith P. Butler ISBN: 0804728127 Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr Pub. Date: June, 1997 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Capital: A Critique of Political Economy (Penguin Classics) by Karl Marx, Ben Fowkes, J. M. Cohen ISBN: 0140445684 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: May, 1992 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Vol. 3, 1935-1938 by Walter Benjamin, Howard Eiland, Michael W. Jennings ISBN: 0674008960 Publisher: Belknap Pr Pub. Date: 31 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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