AUTHOR-APPROVED Not Half No End: Militantly Melancholic Essays in Memory of Jacques Derrida Geoffrey Bennington 'Geoffrey Bennington was Derrida's close friend, and is his distinguished translator, his collaborator, and one of Derrida's most profound readers. One distinctive value and originality of the essays in this book is the way they show in detail how Derrida's "early work" foreshadows the later books and essays, down to the final seminars. A necessary book for all those interested in Derrida's writing.' J. Hillis Miller, University of California at Irvine 'For those wanting to discover or rediscover Jacques Derrida still alive and thinking after life, Geoffrey Bennington is the exemplary guide, a scholarly acrobat, at once grave and droll. He has read everything, he hears and understands everything. Played by Bennington, Derrida becomes the hero of a deeply moving philosophical epic. This admirable book with melancholy in its title is also the triumph of a never unfaithful freedom.' Hélène Cixous, author and theorist /Essays written by Geoffrey Bennington following the death of his friend Jacques Derrida in 2004/. Each of the 15 pieces in this volume continues 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'. 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.