Specter  

From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia

Jump to: navigation, search

Related e

Wikipedia
Wiktionary
Wiki Commons
Tumblr
Wikisource
YouTube
Shop


Featured:
A Scheme for abolishing all Words is one of the wittiest and smartest comments on semantics. (Illustration: extreme close-up from the movie "The Big Swallow" (1901), produced and directed by James Williamson (1855-1933)
Enlarge
A Scheme for abolishing all Words is one of the wittiest and smartest comments on semantics. (Illustration: extreme close-up from the movie "The Big Swallow" (1901), produced and directed by James Williamson (1855-1933)

A spectre or specter is a ghostly apparition. It is derived from the Latin spectrum and has been attested in the English language since the early 17th century. By the 19th century, the term was used outside the domain of paranormal phenomena. In 1848 for example, Marx and Engels stated “A spectre is haunting Europe, the spectre of Communism.” In 1993 Jacques Derrida referred to the term again when he wrote Spectres of Marx.



Unless indicated otherwise, the text in this article is either based on Wikipedia article "Specter" or another language Wikipedia page thereof used under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License; or on original research by Jahsonic and friends. See Art and Popular Culture's copyright notice.

Personal tools