Ronell Avital. Stupidity

Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2002. — 376 p. — ISBN10: 0252071271; ISBN13: 978-0252071270The 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. With dazzling readings of Musil, Schlegel, Dostoevsky, and Wordsworth, Ronell conjures a figure of non-knowledge whose sovereign failures of cognition constitute a radical challenge to the philosophical, political and ethical premises of the discourses of modernity. [Jean-Luc Nancy]