ABSTRACT

In his Specters of Marx, Derrida writes about Marx, Marxism, its past and future. Spectres are the best symbol of the non-presence that is always present in multiple ways. For Derrida they represent something else as well:

If I am getting ready to speak at length about ghosts, inheritance, and generations, generations of ghosts, which is to say about certain others who are not present, nor presently living, either to us, in us, or outside us, it is in the name of justice. Of justice where it is not yet, not yet there, where it is no longer, let us understand where it is no longer present, and where it will never be, no more than the law, reducible to laws or rights.