Avital Ronell. Arendt's acceptance of the Lessing Prize. 2016

source: European Graduate School Video Lectures   2017年2月7日
http://www.egs.edu Avital Ronell, Jacques Derrida Chair and Professor of Philosophy at The European Graduate School / EGS. Saas Fee, Switzerland August 10 2016.
Her research and theoretical contributions extend across the fields of literary studies, philosophy, feminist theory, technology and media, psychoanalysis, deconstruction, ethics, and performance art.
Born in Prague to Israeli diplomats, Ronell emigrated to New York in 1956. She completed a Bachelor of Arts at Middlebury College, and then went on to study with Jacob Taubes and Hans-Georg Gadamer at the Hermeneutics Institute at the Freie Universität Berlin. Ronell returned to the United States and continued her studies at Princeton University, where, under the supervision of Stanley Corngold and with a thesis entitled The Figure of Poetry: Self-reflection in Goethe, Hölderlin, and Kafka, she received a PhD in Germanic languages and literature, in 1979. After completing her doctorate, Avital Ronell moved to Paris in order to study directly with Jacques Derrida and Hélène Cixous. After her years of study in Paris, she assumed a number of professorships at various universities in the United States, including the University of Virginia, the University of California, Riverside, and the University of California, Berkeley. In 1995, she returned to New York to assume her post at New York University. Avital Ronell has been the recipient of a number of prestigious awards and fellowships, including: Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung Fellowship (1981–1983), American Cultures Fellowship (1991), Research Fellow Award (1993), and the University of California’s President’s Fellowship (1995–1996). Further, she has served as chair of the Division of Philosophy and Literature and chair of the Division of Comparative Literature at the Modern Language Association, from 1993 to 1996.

In 2009, the Centre Pompidou invited her to hold a series of conference performances with artists and philosophers such as Pierre Alferi, Werner Herzog, Judith Butler, Laurence Rickels, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Suzanne Doppelt, among others. The project went under the title: Selon… Avital Ronell (According to… Avital Ronell).
In October 2015, Ronell was presented with the prestigious insignia of Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French Minister of Culture.
As one of the first English translators of Jacques Derrida’s work, Avital Ronell is widely credited as one of the primary figures introducing his work to English speaking audiences—and American academia more specifically. While Derrida is certainly the over-whelming influence on Ronell’s work, she is in constant dialogue with a number of philosophers and theorists, including Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger, Emmanuel Levinas, or Maurice Blanchot, to name but a few. While her work is often considered as deconstructive, Derridean, Heideggerian, post-feminist, post-structuralist, or psychoanalytic, Ronell’s thinking and writing works beyond these labels remaining utterly singular and thoroughly transgressive.
Among Avital Ronell’s significant works are: Dictations: On Haunted Writing (1986), Crack Wars: Literature, Addiction, Mania (1992), Stupidity (2001), The Test Drive (2005), The ÜberReader: Selected Works of Avital Ronell (ed. Diane Davis, 2007), Fighting Theory (with Anne Dufourmantelle, trans. Catherine Porter, 2010), Schriften zur Literatur: Essays von Goethe bis Kafka (trans. Marc Blankenburg, 2012), and Loser Sons: Politics and Authority (2012).
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Avital Ronell. Dissecting the paraconcept of the complaint. 2016

source: European Graduate School Video Lectures   2016年11月4日
http://www.egs.edu Avital Ronell, Jacques Derrida Chair and Professor of Philosophy at The European Graduate School / EGS. Valetta/Malta. March 27 2016.
Avital Ronell is the Jacques Derrida Chair and professor of philosophy at The European Graduate School / EGS, as well as University Professor of the Humanities and Professor of German, Comparative Literature, and English at New York University.
Her research and theoretical contributions extend across the fields of literary studies, philosophy, feminist theory, technology and media, psychoanalysis, deconstruction, ethics, and performance art.

As one of the first English translators of Jacques Derrida’s work, Avital Ronell is widely credited as one of the primary figures introducing his work to English speaking audiences—and American academia more specifically. While Derrida is certainly the over-whelming influence on Ronell’s work, she is in constant dialogue with a number of philosophers and theorists, including Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger, Emmanuel Levinas, or Maurice Blanchot, to name but a few. While her work is often considered as deconstructive, Derridean, Heideggerian, post-feminist, post-structuralist, or psychoanalytic, Ronell’s thinking and writing works beyond these labels remaining utterly singular and thoroughly transgressive.
Among Avital Ronell’s significant works are: Dictations: On Haunted Writing (1986), Crack Wars: Literature, Addiction, Mania (1992), Stupidity (2001), The Test Drive (2005), The ÜberReader: Selected Works of Avital Ronell (ed. Diane Davis, 2007), Fighting Theory (with Anne Dufourmantelle, trans. Catherine Porter, 2010), Schriften zur Literatur: Essays von Goethe bis Kafka (trans. Marc Blankenburg, 2012), and Loser Sons: Politics and Authority (2012).

Avital Ronell. On writing a dissertation. 2013

source: source: egsvideo  2013年09月28日
http://www.egs.edu/ Avital Ronell, philosopher and author, talking about the writing, dissertation, pressure, and anxiety. In the lecture Avital Ronell discusses the concepts of body, reading, technology, care, in relationship to Telephone book, Crack Wars, Friedrich Kittler, Foucault, Derrida, drugs, focusing on thesis, draft, and question. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe Year Avital Ronell.

Avital Ronell is Professor of German, comparative literature, and English at New York University, where she directs the Research in Trauma and Violence project. She is a member of the faculty of the European Graduate School, interested in Literary and other discourses, feminism, philosophy, technology and media, psychoanalysis, deconstruction, performance art, and has also written as a literary critic, a feminist, and philosopher.

Judith Butler, Avital Ronell and Laurence Rickels. Kafka's Before The La... (2012)

source: European Graduate School      2012年3月1日
http://www.egs.edu/ Judith Butler, Avital Ronell and Laurence Rickels talking about paternal authority and psychoanalysis in Kafka's writings. In this lecture, Laurence Rickels, psychoanalyst and author, discusses the role of libido in judgment, the impossibility of writing, the Oedipus complex and the imperative to enjoy in relationship to Franz Kafka, Jacques Lacan, Sigmund Freud, Walter Benjamin, Jacques Derrida, Martin Luther, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari focusing on parables, paradoxes, commandments, desire, death drive, sexual difference, the superego, performativity and minor literature. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe. 2011. Judith Butler, Avital Ronell and Laurence Rickels.

Avital Ronell and Judith Butler. Psychoanalysis, authority and discernme... (2014)

source: European Graduate School      2014年1月16日
http://www.egs.edu/ Avital Ronell and Judith Butler, talking about psychoanalysis, authority and discernment. In the lecture Avital Ronell and Judith Butler discuss the concepts of Freud, Goethe, death drive, guilt in relationship to Heidegger, Hannah Arendt, Korjeve, Plato, super ego, suicide, focusing on authority. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe 2013 Avital Ronell and Judith Butler.

Judith Butler, Avital Ronell and Laurence Rickels. Bringing Down Metaphy... (2012)

source: European Graduate School      2012年3月12日
http://www.egs.edu/ Judith Butler, Avital Ronell and Laurence Rickels talking about Kafka and the collapse of metaphysics. In this lecture, Avital Ronell, philosopher and author, discusses the play of presence and absence, the politics of friendship, the problem of departure and arrival, the relationship between psychoanalysis and literature, and the reciprocity of calling and being called in relationship to Franz Kafka, Jacques Lacan, Sigmund Freud, Walter Benjamin, Jacques Derrida, Martin Luther, Michel Foucault and Martin Heidegger focusing on the letter, destiny, Gesicht, history, authority, law, the panopticon, the Event, Abraham, hope, impossibility and laughter. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe. 2011. Judith Butler, Avital Ronell and Laurence Rickels.

Avital Ronell, Judith Butler, Laurence Rickels: Arendt, Heidegger & The ... (2009)

source: European Graduate School       2009年10月1日
http://www.egs.edu/ Avital Ronell, Judith Butler and Laurence Rickels conducting a joint seminar in which they discussed Martin Heideggers essay What is Thinking? and how it relates to Hannah Arendt and her ideas on judgement. They spoke about Arendts feeling of not being welcome in the league of male philosophers and Arendts view that she was a political theorist and therefore public versus Heideggers solitary philosophy. They discussed the ontology of thought, as well as the active creation of ones being through thinking. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe 2009 Judith Butler Avital Ronell Laurence Rickels

Avital Ronell and Judith Butler. Contemporaneity of Philosophy. 2006

source: European Graduate School      2007年4月3日
http://www.egs.edu/ Lecture with Avital Ronell and Judith Butler focusing on contemporaneity of philosophy, Jacques Derrida, Georges Bataille, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, theory and trauma. Free public open lecture for the students of the European Graduate School EGS, Media and Communication Studies department program, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Europe, 2006

Avital Ronell. Gift of Forgiveness. 2012

source: European Graduate School      2013年2月10日
http://www.egs.edu/ Avital Ronell, talking about pardoning, food, ok, snafu, fubar, eating, gift, divorce, violence, forgetting, trauma, exception. In the lecture Avital Ronell discusses the concepts of forgiveness, drugs, ontic, ontological, friendship, blush, nausea, otherness, alterity, linkage, difference referring to Derrida, Lacoue-Labarthe, Alfred Hitchcock, Hegel. Free public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies Department Program in 2012. EGS, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Europe, Avital Ronell 2012.

Avital Ronell is Professor of German, comparative literature, and English at New York University, where she directs the Research in Trauma and Violence project. She is a member of the faculty of the European Graduate School, interested in Literary and other discourses, feminism, philosophy, technology and media, psychoanalysis, deconstruction, performance art, and has also written as a literary critic, a feminist, and philosopher.

Avital Ronell. Derrida On Forgiveness. 2012

source: European Graduate School     2013年2月1日
http://www.egs.edu/ Avital Ronell, talking about forgiveness, gift, speech-acts, aneconomy, punishment, crime. In the lecture Avital Ronell discusses the concepts of mourning, normalcy, referring to Derrida, Hegel, Lacan, Jankelevich. Free public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies Department Program in 2012. EGS, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Europe, Avital Ronell 2012.

Avital Ronell. Walking as a philosophical act. 2014

source: European Graduate School   2014年12月26日
http://www.egs.edu/ Avital Ronell, philosopher and author, takes us through some thoughts on walking as a philosophical act. She explores the walker as well as possible accidents or diversions, tumbling and toppling over which may find us or which we may find along the way. Encounters and their counters, interlocutors and those who we come up against, Ronell takes us through literary tracks and typologies of the walker. Through the Reveries of a Solitary Walker of Rousseau as well as Nietzsche, Celan and DeMan, and Heidegger, Ronell expounds on variations of this theme in the opening lecture of the series at the European Graduate School in August 2014.

Avital Ronell and Judith Butler. Freud and non-violence. 2013

source: egsvideo  2014年01月09日
http://www.egs.edu/ Avital Ronell and Judith Butler, talking about the non-violence, psychoanalysis, aggression, and prohibitions. In the lecture Avital Ronell and Judith Butler discuss the concepts of Freud, coexistence, suffering, primitive man, in relationship to Dostoyevsky, Bataille, Heidegger, narcissism, promiscuity, pleasure principle, focusing on love, peace. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe 2013 Avital Ronell and Judith Butler.

Avital Ronell is Professor of German, comparative literature, and English at New York University, where she directs the Research in Trauma and Violence project. She is a member of the faculty of the European Graduate School, interested in Literary and other discourses, feminism, philosophy, technology and media, psychoanalysis, deconstruction, performance art, and has also written as a literary critic, a feminist, and philosopher.

Avital Ronell was born in Prague to Israeli diplomats and was a performance artist before entering academia. She received a B.A. in 1974 from Middlebury, studied with Jacob Taubes at the Hermeneutic Institute at the Free University of Berlin, received her Ph.D. under the advisement of Stanley Corngold at Princeton University in 1979. Avital Ronell taught at the University of California at Berkeley from 1984-1995 and at New York University from 1995 to the present. She served as Chair of the Department of German from Spring 1997 to Spring 2005. She taught an annual seminar in Literature & Philosophy at NYU with Professor Jacques Derrida and has taught with Professor Helene Cixous at Université of Paris VIII. She regularly teaches at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland and in Mexico. She was invited by the Humanities Council to offer a seminar at Princeton University in spring 2006.

Judith Butler is the Maxine Elliot professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley and an American feminist and post-structuralist philosopher interested in feminism, queer theory, political philosophy, ethics, zionism, israel, oppression, academic freedom and cultural narrative.

Judith Butler is the author of Giving An Account of Oneself; Undoing Gender; Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence; Contingency, Hegemony, Universality: Contemporary Dialogues on the Left (with Ernesto Laclau and Slavoj Žižek); Antigone's Claim: Kinship Between Life and Death; The Psychic Life of Power: Theories in Subjection; Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative; Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex"; Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity; and Subjects of Desire: Hegelian Reflections in Twentieth-Century France.

Avital Ronell. Walter Benjamin the sequel. 2013

source: egsvideo  2013年10月13日
http://www.egs.edu/ Avital Ronell, philosopher and author, talking about the Walter Benjamin, philosophy, doctorate, and failure. In the lecture Avital Ronell discusses the concepts of transparency, translation, melancholia, sequel, in relationship to sovereignty, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Socrates, Nietzsche, Lyotard, Marx, focusing on task, struggle, and mission. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe Year Avital Ronell.