Passion for Ignorance

What We Choose Not to Know and Why

No cover

Renata Salecl: Passion for Ignorance (2022, Princeton University Press)

English language

Published June 2, 2022 by Princeton University Press.

ISBN:
978-0-691-24571-3
Copied ISBN!

View on OpenLibrary

1 star (1 review)

4 editions

Review of 'Passion for Ignorance' on 'Goodreads'

1 star

Picked it up, read a a chapter or so (there are only 7 chapters in the entire book), and was thoroughly unimpressed. It reads like a middle-schooler hastily putting together a "research paper" comprised of all the various quotes and anecdotes they googled the night before that seemed tangentially related to the assigned subject, but not particularly related to one another.

I bounced ahead to the other chapters, reading a bit to see if there were signs of improvement as the book progressed. There were not.

No real conclusions are drawn, and no real insight is offered. Just a loose collection of anecdotes, some mutually-conflicting, from which no inference or connection is even attempted.

It might make an okay addition to the local "little free library", if I thought it was worth anyone's time to read.