Avital Ronell is an American philosopher who holds the Jacques Derrida Professorship of Philosophy at the European Graduate School and writes on continental philosophy, literary studies, psychoanalysis, political philosophy and ethics. She has written on subjects including Goethe, Alexander Graham Bell and the telephone, the structure of the test across legal, pharmaceutical, artistic and scientific domains, and stupidity and the disappearance of authority. A translator who helped introduce Jacques Derridas work to American readers, she is also a founding editor of the journal Qui Parle.
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Office HeldProfessor in the humanities and in Germanic languages and literature and comparative literature, New York University 1 Tradition
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Avital Ronell ( AH-vit-əl roh-NEL; Hebrew: אביטל רונל; born 15 April 1952) is an American academic who writes about continental philosophy, literary studies, psychoanalysis, political philosophy, and ethics.
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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
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Avital Ronell is an American academic who writes about continental philosophy, literary studies, psychoanalysis, political philosophy, and ethics.
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Addiction, deficiency, dictation, disappearance of authority, disease, drugs, excessive force, ethics, legal subjects, rumor, stupidity, technology, telephony, tests, trauma, war
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Continental philosophy, critical theory, deconstruction, existentialism, hermeneutics, post-structuralism
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