Spectral Bodies: Derrida and the Philosophy of the Photograph as Historical Document

Marx's call for a materialism capable of engaging reality as 'sensuous human activity' opens a question about the role of representation in relation to data. Images have increasingly been seen as significant forms of data in the history of education. Derrida's theory of the spectre—a variation on the positions established in his earlier works on the trace, the supplement and differ a nce—offers a way of rethinking visual images, their relations with existing discourses of knowledge and with positioned subjects who makes sense. Two early twentieth-century photographs are explored here in relation to ideas derived from Derrida as an exercise in the philosophy of representation.     

以解构的方式捍卫马克思——论德里达对马克思的新解释

德里达被公认为20世纪下半叶最重要的哲学家之一,他在1989年苏东共产主义阵营解体之后发表了对马克思不吝的赞颂,这是20世纪下半叶哲学史上的一个重要事件.有必要理解德里达对马克思的新解释的意图和意义.德里达通过阐发马克思的幽灵的概念,指出继承马克思的活的精神的意义,这个马克思的真精神就是对抗霸权国家主导的资本主义国际秩序的"新国际".