9th Derrida Today Conference at École Normale Supérieure, July 2026

Derrida’s spectrology or granting ghosts the right to teach us to live The aim of this paper is to reconsider the possibility of a phenomenology of the spectral – that is, the ghostly returns from past revolutionary events operating within disjointed sequences of time to haunt the present. How should one interpret the Marxist messianic …