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Not Half No End: Militantly Melancholic Essays in Memory of Jacques Derrida
Geoffrey Bennington
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Paperback. A collection of essays by one of Jacques Derrida's friends and foremost commentators. Newly available in paperback. Series: The Frontiers of Theory. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF7. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 161 x 235 x 11. Weight in Grams: 294. Militantly Melancholic Essays in Memory of Jacques Derrida. Series: The Frontiers of Theory. 184 pages. A collection of essays by one of Jacques Derrida's friends and foremost commentators. Newly available in paperback. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: HPCF7. Dimension: 161 x 235 x 11. Weight: 294.
This book, newly available in paperback, gathers essays written by Geoffrey Bennington since the death of his friend Jacques Derrida in 2004. All continue the ongoing work of elucidating difficult and complex thought, often enough with reference to Derrida's persistent interrogation of the concepts of life and death, mourning and melancholia, and what he sometimes calls 'half-mourning'. Not Half No End relates this 'ethical' interruption of mourning to the persistent but still ill-understood motif of interrupted teleology, which, it is argued here, is definitive of deconstruction in general. This suspension or interruption of the end (which is none other than ... Read more
This book, newly available in paperback, gathers essays written by Geoffrey Bennington since the death of his friend Jacques Derrida in 2004. All continue the ongoing work of elucidating difficult and complex thought, often enough with reference to Derrida's persistent interrogation of the concepts of life and death, mourning and melancholia, and what he sometimes calls 'half-mourning'. Not Half No End relates this 'ethical' interruption of mourning to the persistent but still ill-understood motif of interrupted teleology, which, it is argued here, is definitive of deconstruction in general. This suspension or interruption of the end (which is none other than ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
Series
The Frontiers of Theory
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780748643165
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V9780748643165
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About Geoffrey Bennington
Geoffrey Bennington is Asa G Candler Professor of Modern French Thought at Emory University. He is the author and translator of numerous books and articles on literary and philosophical issues, and translator of many texts by Jacques Derrida and other French thinkers. His books include Late Lyotard (2005), Deconstruction is Not What You Think!(2005), Interrupting Derrida (2000) and, with Jacques ... Read more
Reviews for Not Half No End: Militantly Melancholic Essays in Memory of Jacques Derrida
Bennington (Emory) brings together 15 essays and meditations conceived as works of mourning after Derrida's death in october 2004. The various tones and differing occasions that characterize them display the range of Bennington's skill as theorist and essayist. The effect is powerful and engaging ... Essential.
N. Lukacher, University of Illinois at Chicago Choice Bennington (Emory) brings together 15 ... Read more
N. Lukacher, University of Illinois at Chicago Choice Bennington (Emory) brings together 15 ... Read more