Jerusalem and memory

on a long parenthesis in Derrida's specters of Marx

David Jobling

pp. 99-115

in: Yvonne Sherwood (ed), Derrida's Bible, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2004

Abstract

I have found Derrick's Specters of Marx to be a helpful and even an essential book, but it has been mostly neglected by religion and Bible scholars. In the conference sessions on Derrida (at the Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting in Toronto, November 2002) from which this volume originates, Specters was not covered, and Marx himself was scarcely mentioned in papers other than mine. This fact is perhaps further evidence of that post-Soviet "death of Marx" which is precisely the theme of Specters.

Cited authors

Derrida Jacques

Marx Karl