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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.〔http://www.egs.edu/faculty/avital-ronell/biography/〕 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.〔http://complit.as.nyu.edu/object/avitalronell.html〕 As Jacques Derrida Professor of Philosophy, she teaches regularly at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee.〔 Under the advisement of Stanley Corngold, Ronell received her Doctorate of Philosophy in German Studies from Princeton University in 1979 for a dissertation written on self-reflection in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Hölderlin, and Franz Kafka, but subsequently disclosed in interviews she had wanted ''Dictations: On Haunted Writing'' to serve as her dissertation.〔Avital Ronell, ''Fighting Theory: Avital Ronell in Conversation with Anne Dufourmantelle,'' pg. 7, translated by Catherine Porter, University of Illinois Press, 2010, ISBN 9780252076237〕 Ronell is widely considered "one of the most original, bold and surprising" thinkers "in contemporary academy"〔Gregory Ulmer, ''The ÜberReader,'' backmatter, University of Illinois Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0-252-07311-3〕 and "the foremost thinker of the repressed conditions of knowledge ... with the Nietzschean audacity ... () probe the philosophical no-man's land."〔Jean-Luc Nancy ''Stupidity, '' backmatter, University of Illinois Press, 2002, ISBN 9780252071270〕 In 2009, the Centre Pompidou invited her to hold interviews "according to ... Avital Ronell (''Selon ... Avital Ronell'')" with such artists and thinkers as Werner Herzog, Judith Butler, Dennis Cooper, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Suzanne Doppelt.〔http://www.centrepompidou.fr/cpv/ressource.action;jsessionid=87F25067768DB2C409256BE8998E5258?param.id=FR_R-70a5cacd536ea48a2449caec0236ced¶m.idSource=FR_E-9bce4d82728ec0ae1e34702c26e2e03〕 Her research ranges from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe dictating haunted writing and psychoanalysis, Alexander Graham Bell setting up electronic transmission systems in the early 20th century, the structure of the test in legal, pharmaceutical, artistic, scientific, Zen, and historical domains, to 20th-century literature and philosophy on stupidity, on the disappearance of authority, childhood and a diction of deficiency. Ronell is a founding editor of the journal ''Qui Parle''〔http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~quiparle/about-us/〕 and a member of Jewish Voice for Peace.〔http://jewishvoiceforpeace.org/campaigns/making-history-support-israeli-artists-who-say-no-normalizing-settlements-4〕 In 1983, she wrote one of the first critical inquiries to theorize the AIDS crisis, and in 1992 a critique of the March 2nd police brutality against Rodney King which ''Artforum'' subsequently deemed "the most illuminating essay on TV and video ever written."〔Artforum ''Finitude's Score: Essays for the End of the Millennium,'' backmatter, University of Illinois Press, 1994, ISBN 0803289499〕 She received the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung Fellowship from 1981 to 1983, the American Cultures Fellowship in 1991, a Research Fellow Award in 1993, and the University of California President's Fellowship from 1995 to '96.〔http://german.as.nyu.edu/object/avitalronell.html〕 She served as Chair to the Division of Philosophy and Literature and to the Division of Comparative Literature at the Modern Language Association from 1993 to 1996,〔 and gave one of two keynote addresses at the annual meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association in 2012.〔http://acla.org/acla2012/?page_id=373〕 ==Biography== Ronell was born in Prague to Israeli diplomats and was a performance artist before entering academia.〔Andrea Juno, "Avital Ronell," in Re/Search: Angry Women 13, (Re/Search Publications, 1991), pp. 127, ISBN 1890451053〕 She emigrated to New York four years later, in 1956. She attended the prestigious Rutgers Preparatory School and graduated in 1970.〔Avital Ronell, ''The ÜberReader: Selected Works of Avital Ronell'', pg. 10-1, University of Illinois Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0-252-07311-3〕 As a young immigrant, she frequently encountered xenophobia and anti-Semitism.〔Avital Ronell, ''Fighting Theory: Avital Ronell in Conversation with Anne Dufourmantelle,'' pg. ix, translated by Catherine Porter, University of Illinois Press, 2010, ISBN 9780252076237〕 She gained a Bachelor of Arts from Middlebury College, and subsequently studied with Jacob Taubes and Hans-Georg Gadamer at the Hermeneutic Institute at the Free University of Berlin. Ronell received her Doctorate of Philosophy in German studies under the advisement of Stanley Corngold at Princeton University in 1979, and carried "some wounded memories from graduate school" with her close friend and philosopher Laurence Rickels.〔Avital Ronell, ''Fighting Theory: Avital Ronell in Conversation with Anne Dufourmantelle,'' pg. ix, translated by Catherine Porter, University of Illinois Press, 2010, ISBN 9780252076237〕 Pulled along by Gisèle Celan-Lestrange, she met Jacques Derrida at a symposium devoted to Peter Szondi.〔Benoît Peeters, ''Derrida: A Biography,'' pg. 308, translated by Andrew Brown, Polity Press, 2013, ISBN 9780745656151〕〔Jacques Derrida, "Envois," ''The Post Card: From Socrates to Freud and Beyond,'' pg. 196, University of Chicago Press, ISBN 0226143228〕 Derrida recounts the meeting in a letter dated the 23rd of June 1979 from ''The Post Card: From Socrates to Freud and Beyond'': She subsequently studied with Derrida and Hélène Cixous in Paris. Ronell would soon become a close friend of poet and novelist Pierre Alféri, who would later influence Ronell in the titling of several of her major works.〔Benoît Peeters, ''Derrida: A Biography,'' pg. 310, translated by Andrew Brown, Polity Press, 2013, ISBN 9780745656151〕 A professor at the University of Virginia for a short time period, Ronell claims she was fired because she taught continental philosophy and "went to the gym on a regular basis: () colleagues were shocked by this—it didn't correspond to their image of an academic woman!"〔Avital Ronell, ''Fighting Theory: Avital Ronell in Conversation with Anne Dufourmantelle,'' pg. 28-9, translated by Catherine Porter, University of Illinois Press, 2010, ISBN 9780252076237〕 She joined the comparative literature faculty at the University of California, Riverside and then at University of California, Berkeley where she taught with Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Jean-Luc Nancy and Judith Butler.〔Avital Ronell, "The Rhetoric of Testing" in ''Stupidity'' (University of Illinois Press, 2002), pp. 120〕 She was a close friend of the controversial writer Kathy Acker and identified with Kathy Acker's fiction. She highlights how they wrote "in correspondence" "destined to each other—in need, in any case, of the complementarity that () writing invited and indicated."〔Avital Ronell, ''Kathy Goes to Hell,'' pg.14, University of Illinois Press, 2010, ISBN 9780252076237〕 In 1996, she moved to New York University where she then co-taught a course with Jacques Derrida until 2004. In 2009, she began co-teaching courses with Slavoj Žižek who continues to hold the position of visiting professor at NYU's Department of Germanic Languages and Literature. In 2010, François Noudelmann also co-taught with her, and co-curated the Walls and Bridges program with her in 2011.〔http://www.villagillet.net/fileadmin/Contenus_site/Tickets/Actualites/ProgrammeWallsandBridgessaison4bd.pdf〕 In addition to her own writing, she introduced Jacques Derrida to American audiences by translating his reading of Kafka's "Before the Law," his essay on the law of gender/genre, and his lectures on Nietzsche's relation to biography, among many other translations.〔(Amazon.com: The Ear of the Other: Otobiography, Transference, Translation: Books: Jacques Derrida, Christie McDonald, Peggy Kamuf, Avital Ronell )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Avital Ronell」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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