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StupidityAvital Ronell
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Stupidity

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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." "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…

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FormatPublisherYearPagesISBN
EditionUniversity of Illinois Press20033669780252071270
EditionUniversity of Illinois Press20023669780252026133
History and criticismStupidity in literatureModern Literature