Test Drive

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.

• Contents«FL»Part IProving GroundsPart IITrial RunsPart III On Passing the TestPart IVThe Test Drive: On Nietzsche's «MDUL»Gay Science«MDNM»Part VTrial Balloon: Husserl to Front Weatherman #414Part VITesting Your Love, or: Breaking Up Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Methodology, Testing

"A brilliant success. Ronell's book makes us better understand who we are and what 'drives' us--that is to say, this is a book of the very first rank of importance."--Rüdiger Campe, professor of German, Johns Hopkins University"As Ronell pursues the conceptual, figural, rhetorical, and even visual investigation of all the registers of testing, her line of argument remains exceptionally clear. The writing is always astute and imaginative--even witty. The Test Drive is cogently argued, exceptionally erudite, and stunningly original work."--Hent de Vries, author of Religion and Violence: Philosophical Reflections from Kant to Derrida