"-- Choice"
"In Stupidity Avital Ronell explores the fading empire of cognition, modulating stupidity into idiocy, puerility, and the figure of the ridiculous philosopher instituted by Kant. Drawing on a range of writers including Dostoevsky, Schlegel, Musil, and Wordsworth, Stupidity investigates ignorance, dumbfounded-ness, and the limits of reason. "The foremost thinker of the repressed conditions of knowledge, Avital Ronell, with the Nietzschean audacity characteristic of her thought, probes the philosophical no-man's land of stupidity." -- Jean-Luc Nancy, author of The Sense of the World"[An] energetic book ...[Ronell's] fifth and perhaps most accomplished...Stupidity as Ronell understands it is a kind of black hole devouring the light of rationality itself." -- Jonathan Re, Times Literary Supplement "In the face of the Enlightenment, stupidity disrupts, disturbs, or dissents...Disrupt, disturb, and dissent -- that is just what Ronell means to do in this book." -- Edward Rothstein, New York Times"[Ronell] proves herself yet again to be one of the most original and exciting of contemporary critics...If you at all suspect that you might be intelligent, do not avoid Stupidity -- embrace it.
"-- Choice"
"-- Choice"
- ISBN:
- 9780252071270
- 9780252071270
- Category:
- Psychology
- Format:
- Paperback
- Publication Date:
- 17-12-2002
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- Country of origin:
- United States
- Pages:
- 376
- Dimensions (mm):
- 235x140x18mm
- Weight:
- 0.48kg
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