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Spectres of Derrida
Spectres of Derrida
SHELLEY WALIA
Jacques Derrida, 1930-2004. Volume 21 - Issue 23, Nov. 06 - 19, 2004
India's National Magazine, from the publishers of THE HINDU .
(...) Derrida's end brings to one's mind the apocalyptic note of `endism' that has haunted the world so much of late. The end of history, the end of philosophy and the end of Marxism are present in the writings of every intellectual of any consequence. Francis Fukuyama, along with his entourage, is just a `latecomer'. With Derrida, the entire Enlightenment project seemed to have floundered. His outright rejection of Enlightenment, which the Hungarian Marxist theoretician Georg Lukacs calls "Romantic anti-capitalism", is seen earlier in G.W.F. Hegel, Karl Marx and Friedrich Nietzsche, and is, to use the British Marxist Alex Callinicos' phrase, "notoriously a staple of fin-d
SHELLEY WALIA
Jacques Derrida, 1930-2004. Volume 21 - Issue 23, Nov. 06 - 19, 2004
India's National Magazine, from the publishers of THE HINDU .
(...) Derrida's end brings to one's mind the apocalyptic note of `endism' that has haunted the world so much of late. The end of history, the end of philosophy and the end of Marxism are present in the writings of every intellectual of any consequence. Francis Fukuyama, along with his entourage, is just a `latecomer'. With Derrida, the entire Enlightenment project seemed to have floundered. His outright rejection of Enlightenment, which the Hungarian Marxist theoretician Georg Lukacs calls "Romantic anti-capitalism", is seen earlier in G.W.F. Hegel, Karl Marx and Friedrich Nietzsche, and is, to use the British Marxist Alex Callinicos' phrase, "notoriously a staple of fin-d
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