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The Test Drive
Avital Ronell
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Description for The Test Drive
Paperback. Deals with the war perpetrated by highly determined reactionary forces on science and research. This work explores the crucial operations of an uncontestable legitimating machine. It offers a tour-de-force reading of legal, pharmaceutical, artistic, scientific, Zen, and historical grids that depend upon different types of testability. Num Pages: 356 pages, 29 photographs. BIC Classification: HP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 141 x 28. Weight in Grams: 574.
The Test Drive deals with the war perpetrated by highly determined reactionary forces on science and research. How does the government at once promote and prohibit scientific testing and undercut the importance of experimentation? To what extent is testing at the forefront of theoretical and practical concerns today? Addressed to those who are left stranded by speculative thinking and unhinged by cognitive discourse, The Test Drive points to a toxic residue of uninterrogated questions raised by Nietzsche, Husserl and Derrida. Ranging from the scientific probe to modalities of testing that include the limits of friendship or love, this work explores ... Read more
The Test Drive deals with the war perpetrated by highly determined reactionary forces on science and research. How does the government at once promote and prohibit scientific testing and undercut the importance of experimentation? To what extent is testing at the forefront of theoretical and practical concerns today? Addressed to those who are left stranded by speculative thinking and unhinged by cognitive discourse, The Test Drive points to a toxic residue of uninterrogated questions raised by Nietzsche, Husserl and Derrida. Ranging from the scientific probe to modalities of testing that include the limits of friendship or love, this work explores ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
356
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252075353
SKU
V9780252075353
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About Avital Ronell
Avital Ronell is a professor of German, English, and comparative literature at New York University, where she also codirects the program in Trauma and Violence Transdiciplinary Studies. She is the author of Stupidity, Crack Wars, and other books.
Reviews for The Test Drive
"A brilliant success. Ronell’s book makes us better understand who we are and what 'drives' us
that is to say, this is a book of the very first rank of importance."
Rüdiger Campe, professor of German, Johns Hopkins University "As Ronell pursues the conceptual, figural, rhetorical, and even visual investigation of all the registers of testing, her line of argument remains ... Read more
that is to say, this is a book of the very first rank of importance."
Rüdiger Campe, professor of German, Johns Hopkins University "As Ronell pursues the conceptual, figural, rhetorical, and even visual investigation of all the registers of testing, her line of argument remains ... Read more