Avital Ronell

Tags: Philosopher.

Avital Ronell (born 15 April 1952) is an American philosopher who contributes to the fields of continental philosophy literary studies psychoanalysis feminist philosophy political philosophy and ethics. She is a University Professor in the Humanities and in the Departments of Germanic Languages and Literature and Comparative Literature at New York University where she co-directs the Trauma and Violence Transdisciplinary Studies Program.

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birth date

1952-04-15

birth place

Czechoslovakia, Prague

era

20th-century philosophy, Contemporary philosophy

influenced by

Friedrich Nietzsche, Gustave Flaubert, Sigmund Freud, R. D. Laing, Johann Peter Eckermann, Jacques Derrida, Martin Heidegger, Ernst Jünger, Hélène Cixous, Walter Benjamin, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

main interest

Disease, Ethics, Ontology, Technology, Jean-Luc Nancy, Psychological trauma, Addiction, Telephony, War, Authority, Rumor, Dictation (exercise), Law, Force (law), Drug, Stupidity, Deficiency (medicine), Test (assessment)

philosophicalSchool

Deconstruction, Existentialism, Post-structuralism, Continental philosophy, Queer theory, Third-wave feminism, Hermeneutics, Disability studies, Critical theory

region

Western philosophy