The Test Drive

Avital Ronell

ISBN 10: 0252075358 / ISBN 13: 9780252075353

Published by University of Illinois Press, 2007

About this Item

2007. 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. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Test Drive
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0252075358
• ISBN 13: 9780252075353
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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 the crucial operations of an uncontestable legitimating machine. Avital Ronell offers a tour-de-force reading of legal, pharmaceutical, artistic, scientific, Zen, and historical grids that depend upon different types of testability, involving among other issues what it means to put oneself to the test.

About the Author

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.