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Complaint :

0252050231

9780252050237

0252041577

0252083229

9780252041570

9780252083228

Complaint :

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grievance among friends /

Avital Ronell.

Urbana :

University of Illinois Press,

[2018]

©2018

1 online resource (vi, 244 pages)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Raising the Visor: The Complaint of Modernity -- Ach! The History of a Complaint -- The Trouble with Deconstruction -- A Pass of Friendship -- Hannah Arendt Swallows the Lessing Prize -- The Right Not to Complain: On Johnson's Reparative Process.

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"Everyone has a complaint, but nobody likes a complainer. Rather than making things better a complaint can just make things worse. Often its only relief is the harmless and temporary release of steam. But it can also pose as criticism in one of several seemingly respectable forms. In Complaint, Avital Ronell looks at how complaints and complainers have been treated in literature and philosophy, in feedback loops that pay little attention to injustice and suffering. Beginning with Hamlet, and with open awareness of her own experiences, Ronell proceeds to show how complaining is aggravated, distracted, stifled, and transformed. She looks at exemplary complaints made by Friedrich Nietzsche, Hannah Arendt, and Barbara Johnson. She examines the complaint riven history of deconstruction. Renowned for her courage in taking on painful subjects with candor and wit, Ronell dares to listen to the haunting complaints of the dead"--

JSTOR

22573/ctv4r0db

Complaints (Rhetoric)-- In literature.

Complaints (Rhetoric)-- Philosophy.

Literature, Modern-- History and criticism.

Negativity (Philosophy)

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY-- Literary.

Complaints (Rhetoric) in literature.

Literature, Modern.

Negativity (Philosophy)

PHILOSOPHY-- General.

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