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Ghosts ore not renowed for their sense of humour. As Charles Lamb (ho of the underconstructed tales from Shakespeare) put it; ‘Can a ghost laugh, or shake his gaunt sides, when you are pleasant with him?' But the ghost of the theorist of farcical returns might well be something of an exception .At any rate, one can't help thinking that, were the personal spint of Marx to be in any position to take note of his conjurings, in the pages of Specters of Marx, it might he a little tickled in its gaunt ribs, inclined even to give vent to some hollow-sounding cries of mirth. For there is surely an clement of irony about this supposedly overdue encounter between Derrida and Marx: namely, that it may bo the cause - and this conference is itself confirming of the suspicion - of a certain rehabilitation of Marx.
I say ‘certain' because we must add ‘in the academy', or 'in philosophy'. The rehabilitation may prove some-what local and limited, but nonetheless its peculiarity should not pass entirely without comment That the deconstructive turn in philosophy which looked to be exorcizing Marx, and winch was certainly interpreted by many as wanting to do so. may be that which conjures him forth again and puts him track into philosophical vogue; that it may only be through the authorization of Derrida that Marx may return from the shadowy wings of the academy to centre stage and even be allowed a speaking part: this is an odd turnabout, maybe even a bit spooky, certainly a funny business Derrida is right that there are several spirits of Marx, including some we may want finally to put to rest. But one which we should surely continue to summon is that which invites philosophy to be sensitive to its context and effects, and to see the humour in some of its own inversions. Regrettably, Derrida's return to Marx is too little haunted by this spirit of self-appraisal.
But how far, in any case, is this coming back to Marx a genuinely new event, how far a revenant of Derrida’s earlier deferrings of the engagement with the ethical and the political - which have always taken the form, in fact, not so much of a postponement or a confident 'don’t call me, I’ll call you’, but of what one might call a politely tentative gesturing towards a possible handshake with the nettle.
that If we measure the out-of-jointness of our times by the degree of human misery already occurred or in the offing, then our times are indeed askew. In his ten indictments of global capitalism, he also makes it very clear that he subscribes to a broadly Marxist view of the sources of the disorder
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Directions for questions 31 to 33: The passage given below is followed by a set of three questions. Choose the most appropriate answer to each question. Ghosts ore not renowed for their sense of humour. As Charles Lamb (ho of the underconstructed tales from Shakespeare) put it; ‘Can a ghost laugh, or shake his gaunt sides, when you are pleasant with him?' But the ghost of the theorist of farcical returns might well be something of an exception .At any rate, one can't help thinking that, were the personal spint of Marx to be in any position to take note of his conjurings, in the pages of Specters of Marx, it might he a little tickled in its gaunt ribs, inclined even to give vent to some hollow-sounding cries of mirth. For there is surely an clement of irony about this supposedly overdue encounter between Derrida and Marx: namely, that it may bo the cause - and this conference is itself confirming of the suspicion - of a certain rehabilitation of Marx.
I say ‘certain' because we must add ‘in the academy', or 'in philosophy'. The rehabilitation may prove some-what local and limited, but nonetheless its peculiarity should not pass entirely without comment That the deconstructive turn in philosophy which looked to be exorcizing Marx, and winch was certainly interpreted by many as wanting to do so. may be that which conjures him forth again and puts him track into philosophical vogue; that it may only be through the authorization of Derrida that Marx may return from the shadowy wings of the academy to centre stage and even be allowed a speaking part: this is an odd turnabout, maybe even a bit spooky, certainly a funny business Derrida is right that there are several spirits of Marx, including some we may want finally to put to rest. But one which we should surely continue to summon is that which invites philosophy to be sensitive to its context and effects, and to see the humour in some of its own inversions. Regrettably, Derrida's return to Marx is too little haunted by this spirit of self-appraisal.
But how far, in any case, is this coming back to Marx a genuinely new event, how far a revenant of Derrida’s earlier deferrings of the engagement with the ethical and the political - which have always taken the form, in fact, not so much of a postponement or a confident 'don’t call me, I’ll call you’, but of what one might call a politely tentative gesturing towards a possible handshake with the nettle.
that If we measure the out-of-jointness of our times by the degree of human misery already occurred or in the offing, then our times are indeed askew. In his ten indictments of global capitalism, he also makes it very clear that he subscribes to a broadly Marxist view of the sources of the disorder
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