“Specters of Marx”, “Melancholy of the borders. North”, “The Book of Aisha”…

THE MORNING LIST

This week, in the “World of Books” selection: the new edition of Specters de Marxthe most famous work of the philosopher Jacques Derrida (1930-2004); Melancholy of the borders. Northlong stroll through Berlin in the company of Mathias Enard; The Book of Aisha, story of the religious radicalization of a young Mexican woman; Expat bluesa book in which Lucy Mushita recounts her experience of racism; and finally The City and the numberrereading of the reform due to Cleisthenes of Athens in the VI^e century BC BC, by the historian Paulin Ismard and the philosopher Arnaud Macé.

PHILOSOPHY. “Specters of Marx”, by Jacques Derrida

First published in 1993, Specters de Marx is the most famous work of the philosopher Jacques Derrida, who died twenty years ago. Hundreds of articles, several books, films and a play have been devoted to this text which offers a reflection on the state of the West after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Revolutionary hope is Is it still possible in the unipolar world of post-communism?

To demonstrate that a society has the duty to confront its ghosts, Derrida summons three great names from the history of Western culture: Shakespeare, Karl Marx and Paul Valéry. If it wants to emerge from the war of memories, he says, Europe must undertake the work of mourning: giving voice to all spectrums, that is to say to the plurality of languages ​​and stories, bringing together disjointed time and the time of the future, the thought of spectrality and that of the unpredictable.

At the end of this reflection, the philosopher proposes a « finally learn to live » which would lead to the invention of an International “untimely”without status or organization, but capable of fighting the ten “wounds” generated by the excesses of liberalism. Among them: nuclear danger, inter-ethnic wars, mafias, drug trafficking, the creation of misery through debt. Thirty years later, this program seems more relevant than ever. E. Ro.

NARRATIVE. “Melancholy of the borders. North”, by Mathias Enard

There will be four times, four directions. For the moment, there is only one, which points towards the north of the European continent, towards the city of Berlin more precisely. It is to her that Mathias Enard leads us in the first volume of a series entitled Melancholy of the borders.

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