Stupidity

By: Avital Ronell

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Paperback | 17 December 2002

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"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"

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''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 ''Stupidity is remarkable in its ability to connect and co-articulate questions of Western literature and philosophy in a language that is original, moving, and exact.'' --differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies

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