Specters of marx the state of the debt, the work of mourning, and the new international Jacques Derrida translated by Peggy Kamuf with an introduction by Bernd Magnus and Stephen Cullenberg Routledge > New York and LondonPublished in 1994 by Routledge 29 West 35 Street New York, NY 10001 Gres 998 by Routledge 11 New Fetter Lane London ECAP 4EE lation © 1994 by Rovtledge. red in Pench as Spurs de Mara, © Editions Galles, Copyright © 1998 hy Routledge ne in the nized States of America All rights reserved. No parcof this book may be reprinced or reproduced Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publicnion Daa Dersda, Jacques peceres de Marx. Englis of Spectes de Mars Includes index ISBN D-415.91044-7 — ISBN 0-815.91085-5 (pbk) 1 Mars, Kas 853. 2.Communism. 3. Post-comounisn, 1 Tide HXY9SDIGI3 1998 94-20864 335.4 de20 cr. British Library Cataloguing-in-Poblicaion Dats a available [ ‘ contents editors itroduetion reonthews« dedication = exordium 1 | injunerions of marx 3 conjuring —narei ” swears and tears blesw ofan ageless world) 77 in the name of the revolution, the double barricade mapue “impure impure history of ghosts") 9 apparition of the ineppareut the phenomencl ores 177 index 197editors’ introduction Tn the wake of the orgy of self-congratulations which followed the 1989 crumbling of the Berlin Wal Soviet Union, and a series of confrontations perhaps forever to be capeured 12 subsequent dissolution of the best in ‘Tiananmen Square in the image of a single individual blocking the the Western dei idence ane popularity of Francis Fukuyam: eend of history hhand, thae the fure—ifehat word could still be said to have the same to become the global triumph of free marker economies, time many of us felt a vague sense of foreboding, « haunted sense that international changes of such magnitude were as likely to result,