[close] Derrida was invited to give two lectures at a symposium shortly after the collapse of communism and subsequent 'death of Marxism'. Many scholars lectured about the indispensibility of Marx's philosophy, especially to critical theory. This book was formed and born out of that event.

He anchors his text in the scene in which Hamlet's father re-appears to his son as a ghost, and draws interesting connections between philosophy, politics, inheritance, and hauntology.

The book is hard to read.
Derrida's writing will make you sick,
but atleast it makes Shakespeare's writing a little more interesting. [close]