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" Stupidity / "
Avital Ronell.
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BL
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876839
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Ronell, Avital.
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Stupidity /\ Avital Ronell.
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| Publication Statement
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Urbana :: University of Illinois Press,, ©2002.
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366 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm
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0252026136
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: 0252071271
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: 9780252026133
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: 9780252071270
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Abstract
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"There is something about stupidity that is untrackable; it evades our cognitive scanners and turns up as the uncanny double of mastery or intelligence."
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"Avital Ronell's work studies the fading empire of cognition, modulating stupidity into idiocy, puerility, and the figure of the ridiculous philosopher instituted by Kant. Investigating ignorance, dumbfoundedness, and the limits of reason, Stupidity probes the pervasive practice of theory-bashing and related forms of paranoid aggression. A section on prolonged and debilitating illness pushes the text to an edge of a corporeal hermeneutics, "at the limits of what the body knows and tells.""--Jacket.
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"The political and social implications of stupidity have been articulated by Marx, Nietzsche, Deleuze, among others. Urgent yet recalcitrant, stupidity provokes a crisis in our understanding of politics, ethics, and psychoanalysis. The dilemma posed by the limited subject involves national identity, masochism, and sexual politics, as well as the relation of poetic utterance to the stammer in which it originates. Essentially linked to the philosophical primal scene of stupor, stupidity also points to what has been historically inappropriable, as when Hannah Arendt considers Eichmann in terms of not only the banality but also the stupidity of evil."
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Literature, Modern-- History and criticism.
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Stupidity in literature.
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17.93 themes and motives in literature.
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Dummheit
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Literatur
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Literature, Modern.
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Stupidity in literature.
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Dummheit Motiv
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Literatur.
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Domheid.
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Letterkunde.
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| Dewey Classification
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809/.93353
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PN56.S737R66 2002
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17.93bcl
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EC 5410rvk
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