The Promise of Memory -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Exordium -- Introduction -- 1. Benjamin's Reading of Marx -- REMEMBERING THE INSTITUTING VIOLENCE OF CAPITALISM -- THE PRIMACY OF POLITICS OVER HISTORY -- REVISING THE QUESTION OF HISTORY -- BENJAMIN'S CRITIQUE OF MARX'S TELEO-LOGIC -- MESSIANIC TIME: SEIZING THE MOMENT -- SECULARIZING MESSIANISM -- FOUR ISSUES IN THE "THESES" -- 2. Derrida's Reading of Marx -- BENJAMIN AND DERRIDA: COMMON STARTING POINTS -- TWO WAYS TO INHERIT MARX'S PROMISE -- THE EMPIRICAL AND THE TRANSCENDENTAL -- THE PROMISE OF REPETITION -- FOUR FEATURES OF THE QUASI-TRANSCENDENTAL -- MODERNITY, TRAUMA, AND DEFERRED ACTION -- RESPONSIBILITY IN DISJOINTED TIMES -- WHY MARX'S MESSIANISM NEEDS THE MESSIANIC -- HOW TO TELL GOOD FROM BAD GHOSTS -- POSTUTOPIAN MARXISM: KANTIAN AND DECONSTRUCTIVE -- 3. The Critique of Violence -- LAW AS VIOLENT MEANS -- OSCILLATION OF INSTITUTING AND CONSERVING POWER -- PARLIAMENTARY AND RADICAL DEMOCRACY: HOW TO MAKE THE REVOLUTION PERMANENT -- VICTOR-HISTORY AND ITS MESSIANIC CESSATION -- DEPOSITING: THE FINITUDE OF POWER -- PURE MEANS: THE PROLETARIAN STRIKE -- BENJAMIN'S UTOPIAN AMBIGUITIES -- DEPOSITING AND ITERABILITY IN THE FOUNDING OF A STATE -- JUSTICE AND SINGULARITY: DERRIDA'S OBJECTIONS TO BENJAMIN'S CRITIQUE -- THE DISUNITY OF VICTOR-HISTORY -- 4. The Claim of the Dead on the Living -- CRITIQUE OF CULTURAL HISTORY -- COMMODIFIED CULTURE AS FETISH -- READING THE VOICE OF THE NAMELESS IN HISTORY -- CONSTRUCTING A MONTAGE OF HISTORY'S RAGS -- THE ANTERIORITY OF RESPONSIBILITY -- THE ABSOLUTE VICTIM -- WHY DERRIDA'S INJUNCTION NEEDS BENJAMIN'S CLAIM -- WHY BENJAMIN'S CLAIM NEEDS DERRIDA'S INJUNCTION -- Notes -- EXORDIUM -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER ONE -- CHAPTER TWO -- CHAPTER THREE -- CHAPTER FOUR -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J.

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