Specters of Marx

Specters of Marx: The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning and the New International
Cover of the first edition
AuthorJacques Derrida
Original titleSpectres de Marx: l'état de la dette, le travail du deuil et la nouvelle Internationale
TranslatorPeggy Kamuf
LanguageFrench
SubjectKarl Marx
Published
  • 1993 (Éditions Galilée, in French)
  • 1994 (Routledge, in English)
Publication placeFrance
Media typePrint
Pages198 (Routledge edition)
ISBN0-415-91045-5

Specters of Marx: The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning and the New International (French: Spectres de Marx: l'état de la dette, le travail du deuil et la nouvelle Internationale) is a 1993 book by the French philosopher Jacques Derrida. It was first presented as a series of lectures during "Whither Marxism?", a conference on the future of Marxism held at the University of California, Riverside in 1993. It is the source of the term hauntology.