Reading Ronell
Published on 1. July 2009
Book
Hardback
264 pages
978-0-252-03450-3 (ISBN)
Description
Avital Ronell has won worldwide acclaim for her work across literature and philosophy, psychoanalysis and popular culture, political theory and feminism, art and rhetoric, drugs and deconstruction. In works such as The Test Drive, Stupidity, Crack Wars, and The Telephone Book, she has perpetually raised new and powerful questions about how we think, what thinking does, and how we fool ourselves about the troubled space between thought and action.
In this collection, some of today's most distinguished and innovative thinkers turn their attention to Ronell's teaching, writing, and provocations, observing how Ronell reads and what comes from reading her. By reading Ronell, and reading Ronell reading, contributors examine the ethico-political implications of her radical dislocations and carefully explicate, extend, and explore the paraconcepts addressed in her works.
In this collection, some of today's most distinguished and innovative thinkers turn their attention to Ronell's teaching, writing, and provocations, observing how Ronell reads and what comes from reading her. By reading Ronell, and reading Ronell reading, contributors examine the ethico-political implications of her radical dislocations and carefully explicate, extend, and explore the paraconcepts addressed in her works.
Reviews / Votes
"This collection of energetic essays engages the writing of Avital Ronell while contributing fresh, sophisticated thinking to such fields as philosophy, rhetoric, feminism, and literary criticism. . . . Highly recommended."--Choice "By assembling essays by eminent scholars from a wide range of fields, this volume stages an engagement with Avital Ronell that, stimulated by her dazzlingly capacious intellectual and aesthetic imagination, bears on many of the most important topics in the humanities today."--Frederick M. Dolan, coeditor of Between Terror and Freedom: Philosophy, Politics, and Fiction Speak of ModernityMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Baltimore
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 146 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-252-03450-3 (9780252034503)
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Persons
Diane Davis is an associate professor of rhetoric & writing, English, and communication studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the editor of The UEberReader: Selected Works of Avital Ronell.
Content
List of contributors; Editor's introduction; 1. Addressee: Avital - Jean-Luc Nancy; 2. Ronell as Gay Scientist - Judith Butler; 3. The Courage of the Critic: Avital Ronell and the Idea of Emergence - Peter Fenves; 4. Conference Call: Ronell, Heidegger, Oppen - Susan Bernstein; 5. Take Me to Your Reader - Laurence A. Rickels; 6. Uncalled: A Note on Kafka's Test - Werner Hamacher; 7. Avital Ronell's Body Politics - Elissa Marder; 8. Serial - A poem by Pierre Alferi; 9. War Bodies - Gil Anidjar; 10.The Indefinite Article or the Love of a Phrase - Samuel Weber; 11. Learning Impossibility: Pedagogy, Aporia, Ethics - Shireen R.K. Patell; 12. Testing Existence, Exacting Thought: Reading Ronell with Deleuze - Hent de Vries; 13. The Problems of a Generation: Thinking and Thanking Zwang and Drang - Thomas Pepper; 14. Roaming (Dis)Charges: Catastrophe of the Liquid Oozing - Tom Cohen; 15. "Vectorizing Our Thoughts Toward 'Current Events' ": For Avital Ronell - Elisabeth Weber