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History is a science of ghosts—just ask Michelet. Or Hegel, for that matter. But the problem with adopting the vocabulary of Derrida’s Specters of Marx (for example, like Ethan Kleinberg does) is that one feels like Haley Joel Osment in The Sixth Sense, seeing ghosts all the time. Not untrue, but unsatisfying. It took very [...]
My supervisor has asked me to set my own deadline for a full draft of my first chapter. PhD as experience of self-discipline. This chapter is an analysis of the reception of Derrida in certain philosophy of history and historiographical journals.
I’m coming up on having been doing this for 12 months now, and a [...]
