The test drive / / Avital Ronell

• Autore: Ronell Avital
• Pubblicazione: Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, c2005
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (385 p.)
• Disciplina: 101
• Soggetto topico: Methodology; Testing
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-359) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Proving grounds -- Trial runs -- On passing the test -- The test drive : on Nietzsche's Gay science -- Trial balloon : Husserl to front weatherman #414 -- Testing your love, or, breaking up.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The test drive
• ISBN: 9780252092305; 0252092309
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910970780703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II