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The UberReader: SELECTED WORKS OF AVITAL RONELL
Avital Ronell
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Description for The UberReader: SELECTED WORKS OF AVITAL RONELL
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For twenty years Avital Ronell has stood at the forefront of the confrontation between literary study and European philosophy. She has tirelessly investigated the impact of technology on thinking and writing, with groundbreaking work on Heidegger, dependency and drug rhetoric, intelligence and artificial intelligence, and the obsession with testing. Admired for her insights and breadth of field, she has attracted a wide readership by writing with guts, candour, and wit. Coyly alluding to Nietzsche's "gay science," "The UberReader" presents a solid introduction to Avital Ronell's later oeuvre. It includes at least one selection from each of her books, two classic ... Read more
For twenty years Avital Ronell has stood at the forefront of the confrontation between literary study and European philosophy. She has tirelessly investigated the impact of technology on thinking and writing, with groundbreaking work on Heidegger, dependency and drug rhetoric, intelligence and artificial intelligence, and the obsession with testing. Admired for her insights and breadth of field, she has attracted a wide readership by writing with guts, candour, and wit. Coyly alluding to Nietzsche's "gay science," "The UberReader" presents a solid introduction to Avital Ronell's later oeuvre. It includes at least one selection from each of her books, two classic ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252073113
SKU
V9780252073113
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About Avital Ronell
Avital Ronell is a professor of German, comparative literature, and English at New York University, where she directs the Research in Trauma & Violence project. She is author of Dictations: On Haunted Writing,The Telephone Book, Crack Wars,Finitude's Score,Stupidity, and The Test Drive. Diane Davis is an associate professor of rhetoric at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the ... Read more
Reviews for The UberReader: SELECTED WORKS OF AVITAL RONELL
"Avital Ronell has put together what must be one of the most remarkable critical oeuvres of our era...Zeugmatically yoking the slang of pop culture with philosophical analysis, forcing the confrontation of high literature and technology or drug culture, Avital Ronell produces sentences that startle, irritate, illuminate. At once hilarious and refractory, her books are like no others." Jonathan Culler, Diacritics ... Read more