Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Avital Ronell

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American philosopher Avital Ronell.
Last updated on November 9, 2024.
Avital Ronell

Avital Ronell is an American academic who writes about continental philosophy, literary studies, psychoanalysis, political philosophy, and ethics. She is a professor in the humanities and in the departments of Germanic languages and literature and comparative literature at New York University, where she co-directs the trauma and violence transdisciplinary studies program.

Neither a pathology nor an index as such of moral default, stupidity is nonetheless linked to the most dangerous failures of human endeavor.
Giorgio Agamben is possibly the most delicate and probing thinker since Walter Benjamin.
Learning to speak is like learning to shoot. — © Avital Ronell
Learning to speak is like learning to shoot.
Stupidity exceeds and undercuts materiality, runs loose, wins a few rounds, recedes, gets carried home in a clutch of denial-and returns. Essentially linked to the inexhaustible, stupidity is also that which fatigues knowledge and wears down history.
To make things 'perfectly clear' is reactionary and stupefying. The real is not perfectly clear.
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