A review by isabelabaldini
Spectres de Marx by Jacques Derrida

5.0

"to this extent, the effectivity or actuality of the democratic promise, like that of the communist promise, will always keep within it, and it must do so, this absolutely undetermined mesianic hope at its heart, this eschatological relation to the to-come of an event and of a singularity, of an alterity that cannot be anticipated. awaiting wihout horizon of the weight, awaiting what one does not expect yet or any longe, hospitality without reserve [...] just opening which renounces any right to property, any right in general, messianic opening to what is coming, that is, to the event that cannot be awaited as such, or recognized in advance therefore, to the event as the foreigner itself, to her or to him for whom one must leave an empty place, always, in memory of the hope--and this is the very place of spectrality"