by Avital Ronell
University of Illinois Press, 2001
Cloth: 978-0-252-02613-3 | Paper: 978-0-252-07127-0
Library of Congress Classification PN56.S737R66 2002
Dewey Decimal Classification 809.93353

ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
ABOUT THIS BOOK
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.