The Test Drive
Language: English
Published by University of Illinois Press, 2005
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Outer Print, Richmond, VA, U.S.A.Outer Print
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Very Good hardcover in a Near Fine dust jacket. First Edition, First Printing with the full number line. Overall a bright and attractive copy. There is a piece of writing across two pages, though this seems to be printed, not written by the former owner. Dusting to the boards. The jacket is not torn or chipped. 371 pp.
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- Title
- The Test Drive
- Author
- Ronell, Avital
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Publication year
- 2005
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- Near Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 025202950X
- ISBN 13
- 9780252029509
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
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.
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Book Description
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.
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