Walter Benjamin Quotes by Avital Ronell

Giorgio Agamben is possibly the most delicate and probing thinker since Walter Benjamin.

— Avital Ronell

Neither a pathology nor an index as such of moral default, stupidity is nonetheless linked to the most dangerous failures of human endeavor.

— Avital Ronell

Stupidity exceeds and undercuts materiality, runs loose, wins a few rounds, recedes, gets carried home in a clutch of denial-and returns. Essentially linked to…

— Avital Ronell

To make things 'perfectly clear' is reactionary and stupefying. The real is not perfectly clear.

— Avital Ronell

Learning to speak is like learning to shoot.

— Avital Ronell