Derrida: between the promise and the injunction. Educational consequences

Abstract

In this paper we propose to carry out a critical-hermeneutical exegesis of the return to Marx proposed by Jaques Derrida in Espectros de Marx (2003). We will also see how the educational space, thought from an emancipation horizon, opens a privileged place to this return, as a rescue from criticism and responsibility.
To meet this purpose, we will also use a series of articles, lectures and interviews that the author offered around this book to clarify his statements and / or to respond to the numerous criticisms and controversies he raised. In all these productions, Derrida will be assured of the certainty that it is impossible to get rid of Marx as if he were a dead philosopher and now with nothing to say.
For this end, we will reconstruct the logic of Derrida’s discourse at first. We will go through their fundamental
concepts and we will expose their basic hypotheses throughout the first three sections. Later, in the fourth, we will rehearse a critique of the structure of the promise, as presented by the French philosopher, and his consequent ontological emptying. Finally, in the last section, we will rescue the derridean idea of injunction as a sort of call to responsibility, commitment and action.