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Stupidity

By Avital Ronell

Book information

Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Year
2002
ISBN
9780252071270
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
12 MB (12295755 bytes)
Pages
371\371
Time added
2021-10-19 22:00:51

Description

Ronell confronts the philosophical, psychological, and political effects of stupidity through readings of a host of writers---Dostoyevsky, Heidegger, Kant, Deleuze, Arendt, and Paul de Man 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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