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245 10 a| Complainth| [electronic resource] :b| grievance among friends /c| Avital Ronell.;

260 a| Urbana ;a| Chicago :b| University of Illinois Press,c| [2018];

300 a| vi, 244 pages :b| illustration ;c| 23 cm;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references (pages [225]-237) and index.;

505 0 a| 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.;

506 a| Available only to authorized users.;

520 a| "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"--c| Provided by publisher.;

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Complaint grievance among friends / Avital Ronell.

Author/creator	Ronell, Avital
Format	Electronic
Publication Info	Urbana ; Chicago : University of Illinois Press, [2018]
Description	vi, 244 pages : illustration ; 23 cm
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subjects	Complaints (Rhetoric) in literature. Literature, Modern--History and criticism. Complaints (Rhetoric)--Philosophy. Social ethics.

Contents	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.
Abstract	"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"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages [225]-237) and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2017057650
ISBN	9780252041570 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN	9780252083228 (paper : alk. paper)

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