Specters of Marx The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning, and the New International

"Most strikingly, Derrida presents Marx's theory of commodities fetishism as embodying a perception of commodities as hauntingly human life in Capitalism; themselves neither real or unreal, they constitute needless projections and displacements of the real and unreal forms of labour power and social relations from which they draw sustenance, Derrida sees the apotheosis of this spectral economy in the virtual realities of global information networks and cyberspace--the media systems which make premature celebrations of the end of history possible, which maximize the gap between liberal-democratic ideals and their realization, and which accelerate the obsolescence of juridicial concepts of social justice. It is in the densities--even the opacities--of these detailed and risky readings of Marx that the true value of Derrida's reflections will be found; they may not be of historic importance, but they are certainly of intrinsic interest.Derrida, Jacques is the author of 'Specters of Marx The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning, and the New International', published 1994 under ISBN 9780415910453 and ISBN 0415910455.