Philosophe engagée, Avital Ronell ne cesse de penser les symptômes de notre époque en avant-poste sur la ligne de front. Ce présent recueil rassemble quatre textes importants, précédés d’un avant-propos inédit, destiné à la traduction française.Tropes d’assaut. Dans cet article-pamphlet devenu une bannière pour les intellectuels opposants à la guerre du Golfe, Avital Ronell scrute les mécanismes d’une logique de guerre meurtrière avec une acuité dont nous savons aujourd’hui...

Ces entretiens avec Avital Ronell sont destinés à faire découvrir en France une figure tout à fait exceptionnelle de la nouvelle philosophie américaine. Comparée à Judith Butler (publiée chez La Découverte) dont elle est l'amie et la contemporaine, Avital Ronell, disciple et amie proche de Derrida avec qui elle enseignait aux États-Unis, a toujours suscité les passions. Engagée politiquement, elle aime choquer, déplacer les champs de pensée traditionnels, faire surgir des problématiques ce...

“It is not, nor it cannot come to good. But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue.” Thus spoke Hamlet, one of the great kvetchers of literature. Every day, gripers challenge our patience and compassion. Yet Pollyannas rile us up with their grotesque contentment and unfathomable rejection of protest.Avital Ronell considers how literature and philosophy treat bellyachers, wailers, and grumps—and the complaints they lavish on the rest of us. Combining her trademark jazzy panache ...

Avital Ronell reconsiders Solanas in light of her social milieu.SCUM Manifesto was considered one of the most outrageous, violent and certifiably crazy tracts when it first appeared in 1968. Valerie Solanas, the woman who shot Andy Warhol, self-published this work just before her rampage against the king of Pop Art made her a household name and resulted in her confinement to a mental institution. But the Manifesto, for all its vitriol, is impossible to dismiss as just the rantings ...

"Life in this society being, at best, an utter bore and no aspect of society being at all relevant to women, there remains to civic-minded, responsible, thrill-seeking females only to overthrow the government, eliminate the money system, institute complete automation and destroy the male sex."Outrageous and violent, SCUM Manifesto was widely lambasted when it first appeared in 1968. Valerie Solanas, the woman who shot Andy Warhol, self-published the book just befo...

A unique feminist approach to the legacy of Jacques Derrida, Chronicle of Separation is a disparate yet beautifully interwoven series of distinct readings, genres, and themes, offering a powerful reflection of love in—and as—deconstruction. Looking especially at relationships between women, Ben-Naftali provides a wide-ranging investigation of interpersonal relationships: the love of a teacher, the anxiety-ridden bond between a mother and daughter as manifested in anorexia, passion between ...

Kathy Acker was one of the most original, subversive and influential writers of the late 20th century. Known variously, and notoriously, as a consummate postmodernist, feminist, post-punk and plagiarist, her oeuvreover a dozen novels and novellashas inspired a generation of writers and artists.Lust for Life is the definitive collection of essays on Acker's inimitable work, including Peter Wollen's elegiac primer, widely considered the best introduction to Acker, and Avital ...

What position does America occupy in the recent history of Western philosophy? At once the destination for a series of fantasies and the place from which a new relationship to thought originated, America incarnates a dark continent whose strangeness and singularity has driven thinkers outside of their own philosophical comfort zone – often forcing them to show anger, anxiety or desire towards what they considered a challenge or a threat.This book provides a mapping of this complex ...