The Aussie dollar at the moment is on rather good terms with the UK pound and the US$, so I’ve splashed out for quite a few books. Recently arrived are Roudinesco’s Philosophy in Turbulent Times, and Matthias Fritsch’s The Promise of Memory. Now, if only I can find time amidst a new baby, a research & conference trip to the States, and Annual reviews to read them all…
From the blurb of Promise of Memory:
This is one of the very few works that has taken Marx seriously as an interlocutor for both Benjamin and Derrida, and which has attempted, in considerable detail, to bind the former’s philosophy of history to the messianic politics elaborated by the latter two thinkers.
Happy times.
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