Reading Ronell

. Ed(s): Davis, Diane

ISBN 10: 0252076478 / ISBN 13: 9780252076473

Published by University of Illinois Press, 2009

About this Item

A scintillating exploration of the responsibility of reading in Avital Ronell's work Editor(s): Davis, Diane. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: DS; HPCF5; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 147 x 16. Weight in Grams: 362. . 2009. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Reading Ronell
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0252076478
• ISBN 13: 9780252076473
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Laurence A. Rickels is professor of art and theory at the Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe, Germany, and Sigmund Freud Professor of Media and Philosophy at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland.