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Ghostly Demarcations: A Symposium on Jacques Derrida's Specters of Marx

Ghostly Demarcations: A Symposium on Jacques Derrida's Specters of Marx Ghostly Demarcations: A Symposium on Jacques Derrida's Specters of Marx edited by Michael Sprinker London: Verso, 1999 Politics of Friendship Jacques Derrida London: Verso, 1997 Reviewed by Jonathan Joseph Learning to Live (with Derrida) Someone, you or me, comes forward and says: I would like to learn to live finally. Finally but why? To learn to live: a strange watchword. Who would learn? From whom? To teach to live, but to whom? Will we ever know? Will we ever know how to live and first of all what 'to learn to live' means? And why fInally?1 Jacques Derrida has written a book about spectres; those that are neither alive nor dead, but he begins the book with an appeal - he comes forward, perhaps we come forward too, and asks to learn to live finally. Derrida has also written a book about friends. As well as asking to learn to live we could also ask about learning to live with. Both you and me should come forward. This is about learning to live with Derrida and about how Derrida should live with us. But 'living with' entails a commitment. 'To live' is· necessarily 'to . be' and to http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Historical Materialism Brill

Ghostly Demarcations: A Symposium on Jacques Derrida's Specters of Marx

Historical Materialism , Volume 6 (1): 265 – Jan 1, 2000

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© 2000 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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1465-4466
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1569-206X
DOI
10.1163/156920600794750865
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Ghostly Demarcations: A Symposium on Jacques Derrida's Specters of Marx edited by Michael Sprinker London: Verso, 1999 Politics of Friendship Jacques Derrida London: Verso, 1997 Reviewed by Jonathan Joseph Learning to Live (with Derrida) Someone, you or me, comes forward and says: I would like to learn to live finally. Finally but why? To learn to live: a strange watchword. Who would learn? From whom? To teach to live, but to whom? Will we ever know? Will we ever know how to live and first of all what 'to learn to live' means? And why fInally?1 Jacques Derrida has written a book about spectres; those that are neither alive nor dead, but he begins the book with an appeal - he comes forward, perhaps we come forward too, and asks to learn to live finally. Derrida has also written a book about friends. As well as asking to learn to live we could also ask about learning to live with. Both you and me should come forward. This is about learning to live with Derrida and about how Derrida should live with us. But 'living with' entails a commitment. 'To live' is· necessarily 'to . be' and to

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Published: Jan 1, 2000

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