JACQUES DERRIDA ON THE TERRITORY OF GHOSTS
JACQUES DERRIDA ON THE TERRITORY OF GHOSTS

Summary/Abstract: In the given article, I would like to address a few texts of Jacques Derrida, written by him in the 1990s, namely: Back from Moscow, in the USSR (1993), Specters of Marx: The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning and the New International (1994) and Marx & Sons (1999). The close reading of Back from Moscow, in the USSR will allow me to examine the first series of questions, in particular: what the role of the genre of “autobiographical-travel-testimony”, constituted by the texts of European intellectuals who visited USSR in different periods of its history, in the intellectual biography of Derrida, was; how the travel diary can turn into a political diagnosis and what Deconstruction and Perestroika have in common.

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