This collection gathers essays written by Geoffrey Bennington since the death of Jacques Derrida. It continues the ongoing work of elucidating difficult and complex thoughts, often enough with reference to Derrida's persistent interrogation of the concepts of life and death, mou…
The author has elucidated the philosopher's complex thought, especially his persistent interrogation of life and death, mourning and melancholia, and what Derrida sometimes called "half-mourning." The author relates this "ethical" interruption of mourning to the persistent but s…
This book gathers essays written by Geoffrey Bennington since the death of his friend Jacques Derrida in 2004. All, with significant variations of depth, manner and tone dictated by the different circumstances for which they were written, continue the ongoing work of elucidating…
"This book traces the concept of melancholy in Walter Benjamin's early writings. Rather than focusing on the overtly melancholic subject matter of Benjamin's work or the unhappy circumstances of his own fate, Ferber considers the concept's implications for his early thought. Inf…
This study addresses melancholia, examining the phenomenon in the context of art, literature, philosophy and the history of religion and culture, as well as psychoanalysis. It describes the depressive as one who perceives the sense of self as a crucial pursuit which is almost un…
This study addresses melancholia, examining the phenomenon in the context of art, literature, philosophy and the history of religion and culture, as well as psychoanalysis. It describes the depressive as one who perceives the sense of self as a crucial pursuit which is almost un…
Engages with the most obvious theme of Jean Rhys' writing: the speaking and inscription of feminine anguish. The author resists easy generalisations with respect to Rhys' portrayal of women's psychic pain, attending carefully to the nuances of sexual, cultural and ethnic displac…
