Geoffrey Bennington

Not Half No End

Militantly Melancholic Essays in Memory of Jacques Derrida

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Produktbeschreibung

TWO ENDORSEMENTS TO FOLLOW Not Half No End: Militantly Melancholic Essays in Memory of Jacques Derrida Geoffrey Bennington This book 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 differance 'itself') has all manner of consequences for our thinking, and for how we attempt to categorize that thinking (as epistemological, ethical, political or aesthetic, for example). Not Half No End moves through all these domains, and the whole of Derrida's rich and varied corpus, in a weave of styles - from the expository and analytic to the autobiographical and confessional - in the ongoing process of deconstruction. 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Februar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 164mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 429g
• ISBN-13: 9780748639854
• ISBN-10: 0748639853
• Artikelnr.: 28253079

Autorenporträt

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 Derrida, Jacques Derrida (1991).

Inhaltsangabe

iNTRODUCTION
aUTO-
JACQUES DERRIDA:...A LIFE
FOUNDATIONs
IN THE EVENT
THAT'S LiFE, DEATH
HANDSHAKE
THE liMITS OF MY LANGUAGE
DERRIDA'S 'EIGHTEENTH CENTURY'
HALF-LIFE
WRITE, HE WROTE
BEGINNINGS AND ENDS
SALUT À JACQUES
JACQUES DERRIDA IN AMERICA
FOREIGN LANGUAGE (JACQUES DERRIDA AND ME)
WORMWORDS
iNDEX.