{"product_id":"ghostly-demarcations-a-symposium-on-jacques-deriddas-specters-of-marx-paperback","title":"Ghostly Demarcations: A Symposium on Jacques Deridda's Specters of Marx - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMichael Sprinker\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eAijaz Ahmad\u003c\/b\u003e (Contribution by), \u003cb\u003eJacques Derrida\u003c\/b\u003e (Contribution by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith the publication of \u003ci\u003eSpecters of Marx\u003c\/i\u003e in 1993, Jacques Derrida redeemed a longstanding pledge to confront Marx's texts directly and in detail. His characteristically bravura presentation provided a provocative re-reading of the classics in the Western tradition and posed a series of challenges to Marxism. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn a timely intervention in one of today's most vital theoretical debates, the contributors to \u003ci\u003eGhostly Demarcations\u003c\/i\u003e respond to the distinctive program projected by \u003ci\u003eSpecters of Marx.\u003c\/i\u003e The volume features sympathetic meditations on the relationship between Marxism and deconstruction by Fredric Jameson, Werner Hamacher, Antonio Negri, Warren Montag, and Rastko M cnik, brief polemical reviews by Terry Eagleton and Pierre Macherey, and sustained political critiques by Tom Lewis and Aijaz Ahmad. The volume concludes with Derrida's reply to his critics in which he sharpens his views about the vexed relationship between Marxism and deconstruction.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael Sprinker \u003c\/b\u003ewas Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. His \u003ci\u003eImaginary Relations: Aesthetics and Ideology in the History of Historical Materialism \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e History and Ideology in Proust\u003c\/i\u003e are also published by Verso. Together with Mike Davis, he founded Verso's Haymarket Series and guided it until his death in 1999. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAijaz Ahmad\u003c\/b\u003e is a renowned cultural theorist who has taught in several western and Indian universities. A frequent contributor to \u003ci\u003eFrontline\u003c\/i\u003e magazine, he currently lives in New Delhi. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJacques Derrida\u003c\/b\u003e was Director of Studies at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. English translations of his work include \u003ci\u003eGiven Time\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMemories of the Blind\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSpecters of Marx, The Politics of Friendship, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Gift of Death\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eTerry Eagleton\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Cultural Theory and John Rylands Fellow, University of Manchester. His other books include \u003ci\u003eIdeology\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Function of Criticism\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eHeathcliff and the Great Hunger\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eAgainst the Grain\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eWalter Benjamin\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eCriticism and Ideology\u003c\/i\u003e, all from Verso. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eFredric Jameson\u003c\/b\u003e is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at Duke University. The author of numerous books, he has over the last three decades developed a richly nuanced vision of Western culture's relation to political economy. He was a recipient of the 2008 Holberg International Memorial Prize. He is the author of many books, including \u003ci\u003ePostmodernism, Or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Cultural Turn, A Singular Modernity\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Modernist Papers\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eArchaeologies of the Future\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBrecht and Method, Ideologies of Theory, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eValences of the Dialectic\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Hegel Variations\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRepresenting Capital.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eWarren Montag\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of English at Occidental College, Los Angeles. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eBodies, Masses, Power: Spinoza and his Contemporaries\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eUnthinkable Swift\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAntonio Negri\u003c\/b\u003e has taught philosophy and political science at the Universities of Padua and Paris; he has also been a political prisoner in Italy and a political refugee in France. He is the author of over thirty books, including \u003ci\u003ePolitical Descartes, Marx Beyond Marx, The Savage Anomaly, The Politics of Subversion, Insurgencies, Subversive Spinoza, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTime for Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e, and, in collaboration with Michael Hardt, \u003ci\u003eLabor of Dionysus, Empire\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMultitude\u003c\/i\u003e. He currently lives in Paris and Venice.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.91 x 7.78 x 5.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 17, 2008\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51760179970336,"sku":"9781844672110","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/21f62a331aabc53be98dfa3b2eaaabad.webp?v=1780173736","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/ghostly-demarcations-a-symposium-on-jacques-deriddas-specters-of-marx-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}