Or Avital Ronell's Stupidity:
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.'The 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' - Jean-Luc Nancy, author of "The Sense of the World". '(An) energetic book ...(Ronell's) fifth and perhaps most accomplished..."Stupidity" as Ronell understands it is a kind of black hole devouring the light of rationality itself' - Jonathan Re, "Times Literary Supplement". 'In the face of the Enlightenment, stupidity disrupts, disturbs, or dissents...Disrupt, disturb, and dissent - that is just what Ronell means to do in this book' - Edward Rothstein, "New York Times". '(Ronell) proves herself yet again to be one of the most original and exciting of contemporary critics...If you at all suspect that you might be intelligent, do not avoid "Stupidity" - embrace it' - "Choice".
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.'The 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' - Jean-Luc Nancy, author of "The Sense of the World". '(An) energetic book ...(Ronell's) fifth and perhaps most accomplished..."Stupidity" as Ronell understands it is a kind of black hole devouring the light of rationality itself' - Jonathan Re, "Times Literary Supplement". 'In the face of the Enlightenment, stupidity disrupts, disturbs, or dissents...Disrupt, disturb, and dissent - that is just what Ronell means to do in this book' - Edward Rothstein, "New York Times". '(Ronell) proves herself yet again to be one of the most original and exciting of contemporary critics...If you at all suspect that you might be intelligent, do not avoid "Stupidity" - embrace it' - "Choice".
// what we've got here. . . is
failure to communicate \\
I need a book. A good book. A book that I will enjoy.
- 06/02/2011 08:25:51 AM
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The question is not what you have read, but what you enjoyed reading...
- 06/02/2011 12:57:01 PM
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Re: The question is not what you have read, but what you enjoyed reading...
- 12/02/2011 09:24:55 PM
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*NM*
Have you read Foucault's Pendulum? That's been translated into English.
- 06/02/2011 05:09:55 PM
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Different things. Decadant things.
- 06/02/2011 10:10:52 PM
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Haven't read any Vandermeer, actually. You recommend him?
- 07/02/2011 12:26:35 AM
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Jeff is a friend of mine, so of course I would recommend him
- 07/02/2011 08:33:41 AM
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I've been looking for a hardcover edition of Là-Bas in French.
- 07/02/2011 06:05:27 AM
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I get the sense that would be very expensive if found
- 07/02/2011 08:38:37 AM
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Might as well ask American publishers where the obsession with hardcovers comes from.
- 07/02/2011 09:32:50 PM
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Don't libraries as a rule have hardcovers?
- 07/02/2011 09:56:07 PM
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I think you have two different questions there
- 07/02/2011 10:08:40 PM
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Yes, but those are matters of what one is used to, like I said.
- 07/02/2011 10:23:32 PM
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so they are buying paperbacks and turning them into hardbacks
- 09/02/2011 03:14:55 PM
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Pretty much anything by Neil Gaiman, esp. Good Omens (w/Pratchett). More recommendations inside ...
- 08/02/2011 05:43:22 PM
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The Man Who Was Thursday!
- 18/02/2011 12:44:56 PM
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