Title PageCopyrightContentsIntroduction1. Raising the Visor: The Complaint of Modernity2. Ach!: The History of a Complaint3. The Trouble with Deconstruction4. A Pass of Friendship5. Hannah Arendt Swallows the Lessing Prize6. The Right Not to Complain: On Johnson's Reparative ProcessNotesIndex
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).
"Brilliantly written in an open style, complex and persuasive.
Ronell moves like no other between the recesses of philosophy and
the intensities of contemporary culture, offering us here a theory
of melancholy's mainly hapless relation to protest." --Judith
Butler, author of Parting Ways: Jewishness and the Critique of
Zionism
"Beyond adding a further dimension to Ronell's critique of
contemporary modes of scholarly inquiry, which has already
transformed the study of modern literature and thought, Complaint
accomplishes a surprising task: it celebrates the voice of
complaint as the subtle tissue in which fragile ties of friendship
have a chance to survive."--Peter Fenves, author of The Messianic
Reduction: Walter Benjamin and the Shape of Time
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