edited by Diane Davis contributions by Elissa Marder, Jean-Luc Nancy, Shireen R.K. Patell, Thomas Pepper, Laurence A. Rickels, Hent de Vries, Elisabeth Weber, Samuel Weber, Pierre Alferi, Gil Anidjar, Susan Bernstein, Judith Butler, Tom Cohen, Diane Davis, Peter Fenves and Werner Hamacher
University of Illinois Press, 2008 eISBN: 978-0-252-09095-0 | Cloth: 978-0-252-03450-3 | Paper: 978-0-252-07647-3 Library of Congress Classification PN75.R65R43 2009 Dewey Decimal Classification 809
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
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.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
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 ÜberReader: Selected Works of Avital Ronell.
REVIEWS
"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 Modernity
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
1 Diane Davis Introduction
9 Jean-Luc Nancy Addressee: Avital
21 Judith Butler Ronell as Gay Scientist
31 Peter Fenves The Courage of the Critic: Avital Ronell and the Idea of Emergence
49 Susan Bernstein Conference Call: Ronell, Heidegger, Oppen
60 Laurence A. Rickels Take Me to Your Reader
74 Werner Hamacher Uncalled: A Commentary on Kafka's "The Test"
94 Elissa Marder Avital Ronell's Body Politics
113 Pierre Alferi Serial
116 Gil Anidjar War Bodies
131 Samuel Weber The Indefinite Article or the Love of a Phrase
143 Shireen R. K. Patell Learning Impossibility: Pedagogy, Aporia, Ethics
164 Hent de Vries Testing Existence, Exacting Thought: Reading Ronell with Deleuze
186 Thomas Pepper The Problems of a Generation or Thinking and Thanking Zwang AND Drang
205 Tom Cohen Roaming (Dis)Charges: "Catastrophe of the Liquid Oozing"
222 Elisabeth Weber "Vectorizing Our Thoughts Toward 'Current Events'": For Avital Ronell
edited by Diane Davis contributions by Elissa Marder, Jean-Luc Nancy, Shireen R.K. Patell, Thomas Pepper, Laurence A. Rickels, Hent de Vries, Elisabeth Weber, Samuel Weber, Pierre Alferi, Gil Anidjar, Susan Bernstein, Judith Butler, Tom Cohen, Diane Davis, Peter Fenves and Werner Hamacher
University of Illinois Press, 2008 eISBN: 978-0-252-09095-0 Cloth: 978-0-252-03450-3 Paper: 978-0-252-07647-3
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.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
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 ÜberReader: Selected Works of Avital Ronell.
REVIEWS
"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 Modernity
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
1 Diane Davis Introduction
9 Jean-Luc Nancy Addressee: Avital
21 Judith Butler Ronell as Gay Scientist
31 Peter Fenves The Courage of the Critic: Avital Ronell and the Idea of Emergence
49 Susan Bernstein Conference Call: Ronell, Heidegger, Oppen
60 Laurence A. Rickels Take Me to Your Reader
74 Werner Hamacher Uncalled: A Commentary on Kafka's "The Test"
94 Elissa Marder Avital Ronell's Body Politics
113 Pierre Alferi Serial
116 Gil Anidjar War Bodies
131 Samuel Weber The Indefinite Article or the Love of a Phrase
143 Shireen R. K. Patell Learning Impossibility: Pedagogy, Aporia, Ethics
164 Hent de Vries Testing Existence, Exacting Thought: Reading Ronell with Deleuze
186 Thomas Pepper The Problems of a Generation or Thinking and Thanking Zwang AND Drang
205 Tom Cohen Roaming (Dis)Charges: "Catastrophe of the Liquid Oozing"
222 Elisabeth Weber "Vectorizing Our Thoughts Toward 'Current Events'": For Avital Ronell
Contributors
Index
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC