Historiospectography? Sande Cohen on Derrida's Specters of Marx.
In this paper I discuss Sande Cohen's engagements with Specters of Marx, Jacques Derrida's most sustained and significant contribution to historical theory (a term that I take to include historiography and philosophy of history) broadly construed. I begin by asserting Cohen's importance for contempo...
| Publicado en: | Rethinking History Vol. 12; no. 4; pp. 483 - 515 |
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