Avital Ronell is Chair of Comparative Literature at New York University and teaches at the European Graduate School. Her books include Crack Wars: Literature Addiction Mania, The Test Drive, and Stupidity.

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Copyright

Contents

Introduction

1. Raising the Visor: The Complaint of Modernity

2. Ach!: The History of a Complaint

3. The Trouble with Deconstruction

4. A Pass of Friendship

5. Hannah Arendt Swallows the Lessing Prize

6. The Right Not to Complain: On Johnson's Reparative Process

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Index

Avital Ronell is University Professor of the Humanities at New York University, where she is a professor of German, comparative literature, and English. She holds the Jacques Derrida Chair of Media and Philosophy at the European Graduate School. Her books include The Telephone Book, Stupidity, The Test Drive, and Fighting Theory (with Anne Dufourmantelle).