How to inherit Specters of Marx? How to inherit this work that is all about inheritance as the irreducible condition of any possible relation to a past and also to a future, the future of Marx and Marxism, to be sure, but also to any future whatsoever? How to receive its legacy while acknowledging the ways it complicates this scene and yet without merely folding it back on itself, applying it to itself in an act of repetition that ends up finally inheriting little or nothing? Questions like this are provoked when the pretext for rereading Specters of Marx is to mark an anniversary and take stock of how it has aged. Ten years ago already (or almost), there were similar calls to reflect on the arrival of this work on the horizon of rereading Marx and his legacy, under the guiding question of “Whither Marxism?,” as well as...
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March 01 2023
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Peggy Kamuf
Peggy Kamuf
University of Southern California
Peggy Kamuf has translated numerous works of Derrida, including Specters of Marx. She is director of the Derrida Seminars Translation Project and co-director, with Geoffrey Bennington, of the Seminars of Jacques Derrida series at the University of Chicago Press. Her most recent book is Literature and the Remains of the Death Penalty (Fordham, 2019). She is Professor Emerita of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California.
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CR: The New Centennial Review (2023) 23 (1): 1–10.
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Peggy Kamuf; On the Scattered Legacy of Specters of Marx. CR: The New Centennial Review 1 March 2023; 23 (1): 1–10. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/crnewcentrevi.23.1.0001
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