“It has no sense and cannot just unless it comes to terms with death. Mine as (well as) that of the other. Between life and death, then, this is indeed the place of a sententious injunction that always feigns to speak the just.”

— Jacques Derrida, book Specters of Marx

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Specters of Marx (1993)

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French philosopher (1930-2004) 1930–2004

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