Description: "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, [she] investigates ignorance, dumbfounded-ness, and the limits of reason"--Publisher marketing.
Review Quotes: "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."