Avital Ronell
Born
in Prague, Czech Republic
April 15, 1952
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The Telephone Book: Technology, Schizophrenia, Electric Speech
7 editions
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1989
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Crack Wars: Literature Addiction Mania
7 editions
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1992
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Stupidity
10 editions
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published
2001
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The Test Drive
11 editions
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published
2004
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Fighting Theory
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5 editions
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published
2010
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The Uberreader: Selected Works
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9 editions
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published
2007
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Dictations: On Haunted Writing
5 editions
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published
1993
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Finitude's Score: Essays for the End of the Millennium
4 editions
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1994
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Loser Sons: Politics and Authority
6 editions
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2012
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Complaint: Grievance among Friends
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“To make things 'perfectly clear' is reactionary and stupefying. The real is not perfectly clear.”
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“Exemplary friendship embraces, in a resolutely unrequited way, an unwearied capacity for loving generously without being loved back. Marking the limit of possibility—the friend need not be there—this structure recapitulates in fact the Aristotelian values according to which acts and states of loving are preferred to the condition of being-loved, which depends for its vigor on a mere potentiality. Being loved by your friend just pins you to passivity. For Aristotle, loving on the contrary, constitutes an act. To the extent that loving is moved by a kind of disclosive energy, it puts itself out there, shows up for the other, even where the other proves to be a rigorous no-show. Among other things, loving has to be declared and known, and thus involves an element of risk for the one who loves and who, abandoning any guarantee of reciprocity, braves the consequences when naming that love.”
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