The Promise of Memory: History and Politics in Marx, Benjamin, and DerridaState University of New York Press, 1 Φεβ 2012 - 263 σελίδες Rereading Marx through Walter Benjamin and Jacques Derrida, The Promise of Memory attempts to establish a philosophy of liberation. Matthias Fritsch explores how memories of injustice relate to the promises of justice that democratic societies have inherited from the Enlightenment. Focusing on the Marxist promise for a classless society, since it contains a political promise whose institutionalization led to totalitarian outcomes, Fritsch argues that both memories and promises, if taken by themselves, are one-sided and potentially justify violence if they do not reflect on the implicit relation between them. He examines Benjamin's reinterpretation of Marxism after the disappointment of the Russian and German revolutions and Derrida's "messianic" inheritance of Marx after the breakdown of the Soviet Union. The book also contributes to contemporary political philosophy by relating Marxist social goals and German critical theory to debates about deconstructive ethics and politics. |
Περιεχόμενα
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2 Derridas Reading of Marx | 55 |
3 The Critique of Violence | 103 |
4 The Claim of the Dead on the Living | 157 |
Notes | 197 |
Bibliography | 231 |
Index | 247 |
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The Promise of Memory: History and Politics in Marx, Benjamin, and Derrida Matthias Fritsch Περιορισμένη προεπισκόπηση - 2006 |
The Promise of Memory: History and Politics in Marx, Benjamin, and Derrida Matthias Fritsch Δεν υπάρχει διαθέσιμη προεπισκόπηση - 2005 |
Συχνά εμφανιζόμενοι όροι και φράσεις
affirmation ambiguity Aporias attempt Benjamin argues Benjamin's critique bourgeois capitalism chapter classless society Concept of History context critical Critique of Violence cultural dead deconstructive democracy Derrida différance discussion distinction divine violence dominant emancipatory ends eschatology essay fetishism finitude of power future ghosts goal historicism historiography history of victors history of violence horizons human ical idea identity implies inheritance insofar institutions interpretation interruption iterability Jacques Derrida jamin justice labor power language law of oscillation law-positing lence Levinas logic Marx’s Marx's promise Marxism messianic claim messianic promise nameless necessity nonviolent notion ontology oppressed past originary violence philosophy political action positing present production progress proletarian strike promise of memory promise of repetition pure means quasi-transcendental question radical reference relation resistance responsibility revolution revolutionary seen sianic singularity social Specters of Marx spectral struggles teleological Thesis VII tion tique tradition transcendental utopian victims Walter Benjamin
Δημοφιλή αποσπάσματα
Σελίδα 201 - The discovery of gold and silver in America, the extirpation, enslavement and entombment in mines of the aboriginal population, the beginning of the conquest and looting of the East Indies, the turning of Africa into a warren for the commercial hunting of black-skins, signalised the rosy dawn of the era of capitalist production.
Σελίδα 173 - Only that historian will have the gift of fanning the spark of hope in the past who is firmly convinced that even the dead will not be safe from the enemy if he wins.
Σελίδα 161 - There is no document of Civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism.
Σελίδα 201 - At a certain stage of their development, the material productive forces of society come in conflict with the existing relations of production, or - what is but a legal expression for the same thing - with the property relations within which they have been at work hitherto. From forms of development of the productive forces these relations turn into their fetters. Then begins an epoch of social revolution.
Σελίδα 17 - The social revolution of the nineteenth century cannot draw its poetry from the past, but only from the future.
Σελίδα 207 - The working class, in the course of its development, will substitute for the old civil society an association which will exclude classes and their antagonism, and there will be no more political power properly so-called, since political power is precisely the official expression of antagonism in civil society.
Σελίδα 28 - The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognised and is never seen again...
Σελίδα 201 - At a certain stage of development it brings forth the material agencies for its own dissolution. From that moment new forces and new passions spring up in the bosom of society; but the old social organization fetters them and keeps them down.
Σελίδα xi - Nirgends fragt es nach dir Der Ort, wo sie lagen, er hat einen Namen - er hat keinen. Sie lagen nicht dort. Etwas lag zwischen ihnen. Sie sahn nicht hindurch. Sahn nicht, nein, redeten von Worten. Keines erwachte, der Schlaf kam über sie.
Σελίδα 30 - The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, ie, the class which is the ruling material force of society is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.