Avital Ronell
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| Born |
15 April 1952 Prague, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic) |
| Alma mater |
Rutgers Preparatory School Princeton University |
| Era | 20th-/21st-century philosophy |
| Region | Western |
| School | Continental philosophy, Critical theory, Deconstruction, Disability studies, Existentialism, Hermeneutics, Post-structuralism, Third-wave feminism, Queer theory |
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Main interests
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Addiction,Deficiency,Dictation,Disappearance of Authority,Disease,Drugs,Excessive Force,Ethics,Legal Subjects,Ontology,Rumor,Stupidity,Technology,Telephony,Tests,Trauma,Unworking,War |
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Notable ideas
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allotechnology, "Being-on-drugs," biophony, "I am stupid before the other," killer texts, Rausch as identity hoarding, narcoanalysis, supreme-suppression, applied censorship, narcossism, obliterature, "suppository subject (sujet suppositaire)," tropium, toxicogeography |
Avital Ronell (/ˈɑːvɪtəl roʊˈnɛl/; born 15 April 1952) is an American philosopher who contributes to the fields of continental philosophy, literary studies, psychoanalysis, feminist philosophy, political philosophy, and ethics. She is a University 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. As Jacques Derrida Professor of Philosophy, she teaches regularly at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee. Under the advisement of Stanley Corngold, Ronell received her Doctorate of Philosophy in German Studies from Princeton University in 1979 for a dissertation written on self-reflection in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Hölderlin, and Franz Kafka, but subsequently disclosed in interviews she had wanted Dictations: On Haunted Writing to serve as her dissertation.
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