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In this article, I attempt to explore the relation between two sets of terms in Derrida's work: friendship and democracy, and ethics and politics. On the basis of a reading of Derrida's interpretation of Blanchot in The Politics of Friendship, I argue that Blanchot's notion of a non-traditional conception of friendship is a reconstruction of Levinas's notion of the ethical relation to the other, which in turn provides the basis for the formalistic ethical affirmation of Derrida's work, an affirmation found most clearly in his remarks on justice. I then move from the The Politics of Friendship to Derrida's more recent text on Levinas, Adieu, and try to explore the relation between ethics and politics in Derrida's work, with particular reference to the question of democracy. My concluding thesis is that Derrida's recent work is attempting to articulate, through notions such as democracy to come and the new international, what I call 'a repoliticization of Marxism'.

Discusses Jacques Derrida's Specters of Marx (Kamuf, P. [Tr], 1994). Derrida's basic hypothesis is that "spectrality" is a central figure in the work of Karl Marx & that Marx is a "hauntological" thinker who understands that the "spectrality" of differance provides the basis for any conceptual order or political/economic regime; ie, regimes are haunted by their predecessors & alternatives. Central to Derrida's claim is the theme of the messianic. This theme is unpacked in a discussion of the book's subthemes, including the injunction of differance, justice, religion, democracy to come, the spookiness of haunting, hegemony, & the new international. It is concluded that Derrida is right to assert that the new international must be in the spirit of ideological critique & should lead to new political forms, but that his suggestions are vague & run the risk of empty universalism. Adapted from the source document.

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Levinas's idea of ethics as a relation of responsibility to others has become highly influential. Simon Critchley proposes a dramatic new way of reading Levinas's work, and provides a less familiar, more troubling, account of it. He argues that Levinas's fundamental problem was the attempt to escape the tragic fatality of Heidegger's philosophy.

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