Archive for June, 2008
Now this is just a brief post. N Pepperell of Rough Theory has posted a succinct account of some of her thinking on Derrida’s Specters of Marx. While NP had been focussing on Derrida’s reading of Marx, I had been more directed towards Heidegger’s role in this text. More on this to come. All this [...]
Isaiah Berlin on Marx
Isaiah Berlin waxes eloquent at the close of his introduction to Karl Marx. He captures here in vivid terms something of that “messianic spirit” of Marx that Derrida affiliates himself with.
“His attack upon bourgeois society was made at a moment when it had reached the highest point of its material prosperity, in [...]
Ok, so here I’m gong to start posting some of my notes on Derrida’s Specters of Marx. Others around the place have been doing this (notably Rough Theory and Praxis), and I certainly don’t expect to reach the complexity or length of their posts. Let’s just go piece by piece.
From my point of view, the [...]
This then was enough to upset a number of more orthodox readers of Marx, for Derrida uncouples revolutionary moments from any overarching account of a necessary success for those who make the revolution. Derrida’s reading of Marx is thus quite distinct from those readings subordinated to securing a role for a party or a party [...]
