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The Man Who Was Thursday! cabbage Send a noteboard - 18/02/2011 12:44:56 PM
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".

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I need a book. A good book. A book that I will enjoy. Ghavrel - 06/02/2011 08:25:51 AM 1503 Views
Zadie Smith - White Teeth. Legolas - 06/02/2011 11:31:06 AM 1354 Views
Spring Snow looks good, thanks. *NM* Ghavrel - 06/02/2011 08:32:51 PM 578 Views
The question is not what you have read, but what you enjoyed reading... jh - 06/02/2011 12:57:01 PM 1302 Views
Re: The question is not what you have read, but what you enjoyed reading... Dreadlord - 12/02/2011 09:24:55 PM 1203 Views
I recommend.... LiterateDog - 06/02/2011 02:41:48 PM 1458 Views
Sounds fun. I'll check it out. Thanks. *NM* Ghavrel - 06/02/2011 08:27:48 PM 549 Views
+1 random thoughts - 07/02/2011 02:10:27 PM 1231 Views
Short fiction. Chas - 06/02/2011 03:49:50 PM 1192 Views
Have you read Foucault's Pendulum? That's been translated into English. Tom - 06/02/2011 05:09:55 PM 1100 Views
I keep starting it and having something else come up. Ghavrel - 06/02/2011 08:25:30 PM 1300 Views
I am with Tom on this one Camilla - 07/02/2011 01:00:21 PM 1036 Views
The Black Prism by Brent Weeks was pretty good *NM* Fox and Ravens - 06/02/2011 09:20:58 PM 543 Views
Mary Doria Russell's The Sparrow. Novo - 06/02/2011 09:52:43 PM 1092 Views
Sold me on the Jesuits. I'll check it out. *NM* Ghavrel - 07/02/2011 12:25:25 AM 565 Views
Maria V Snyder - Poison Study *NM* Yunalesca - 06/02/2011 10:03:51 PM 854 Views
Different things. Decadant things. Larry - 06/02/2011 10:10:52 PM 1087 Views
Haven't read any Vandermeer, actually. You recommend him? Ghavrel - 07/02/2011 12:26:35 AM 1159 Views
Jeff is a friend of mine, so of course I would recommend him Larry - 07/02/2011 08:33:41 AM 1294 Views
I'll put him on the list. Ghavrel - 07/02/2011 08:50:15 AM 1152 Views
Good Larry - 07/02/2011 09:21:59 AM 1137 Views
I've been looking for a hardcover edition of Là-Bas in French. Tom - 07/02/2011 06:05:27 AM 1116 Views
I get the sense that would be very expensive if found Larry - 07/02/2011 08:38:37 AM 1222 Views
Might as well ask American publishers where the obsession with hardcovers comes from. Legolas - 07/02/2011 09:32:50 PM 1104 Views
Don't libraries as a rule have hardcovers? jh - 07/02/2011 09:56:07 PM 1107 Views
Not really, no. Legolas - 07/02/2011 10:04:52 PM 1149 Views
Huh. Belgians. *NM* jh - 08/02/2011 07:23:05 AM 526 Views
irish libraries are probably 2/3 paperback to 1/3 hardback *NM* Stephen - 09/02/2011 12:00:11 AM 572 Views
I think you have two different questions there random thoughts - 07/02/2011 10:08:40 PM 1125 Views
Yes, but those are matters of what one is used to, like I said. Legolas - 07/02/2011 10:23:32 PM 1135 Views
so they are buying paperbacks and turning them into hardbacks random thoughts - 09/02/2011 03:14:55 PM 1155 Views
Yes, that's definitely a factor. Legolas - 09/02/2011 07:30:14 PM 1187 Views
Re: Yes, that's definitely a factor. Camilla - 09/02/2011 07:39:25 PM 1161 Views
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Have you read The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss? *NM* Tashmere - 07/02/2011 01:18:30 AM 564 Views
Anything by PG Wodehouse, Douglas Adams or Terry Pratchett. Stephen - 07/02/2011 03:21:43 AM 1104 Views
Or, indeed, Malcolm Pryce's Aberystwyth books Camilla - 07/02/2011 01:01:15 PM 1047 Views
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The Man Who Was Thursday! cabbage - 18/02/2011 12:44:56 PM 1042 Views
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