Transl. from the French by Peggy Kamuf; intr. by Bernd Magnus and Stephen Cullenberg. — London; New York: Routledge, 2006. — 288 p. — (Routledge Classics) — ISBN-10 0415389577; ISBN-13 978-0415389570.
Prodigiously influential, Jacques Derrida gave rise to a comprehensive rethinking of the basic concepts and categories of Western philosophy in the latter part of the twentieth century, with writings central to our understanding of language, meaning, identity, ethics and values.
In 1993, a conference was organized around the question, 'Whither Marxism?’, and Derrida was invited to open the proceedings. His plenary address, 'Specters of Marx', delivered in two parts, forms the basis of this book. Hotly debated when it was first published, a rapidly changing world and world politics have scarcely dented the relevance of this book.
Editor's Introduction
Exordium
Injunctions of Marx
Conjuring—Marxism
Wears and Tears (Tableau of an ageless world)
In the Name of the Revolution, the Double Barricade (Impure "impure impure history of ghosts")
Apparition of the Inapparent: The phenomenological "conjuring trick"