Stupidity

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ISBN-10: 0252071271
ISBN-13: 9780252071270
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Publish Date: 12/17/2002
Dimensions: 9.20" L, 5.50" W, 1.00" H

Stupidity

byAvital Ronell

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Overview

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.

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"The foremost thinker of the repressed conditions of knowledge, Avital Ronell, with the Nietzschean audacity characteristic of her though, probes the philosophical no-man's land of stupidity."
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Details

ISBN-10: 0252071271
ISBN-13: 9780252071270
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Publish Date: 12/17/2002
Dimensions: 9.20" L, 5.50" W, 1.00" H
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