Table of Contents

List of contributors; Editor's introduction; 1. Addressee: Avital - Jean-Luc Nancy; 2. Ronell as Gay Scientist - Judith Butler; 3. The Courage of the Critic: Avital Ronell and the Idea of Emergence - Peter Fenves; 4. Conference Call: Ronell, Heidegger, Oppen - Susan Bernstein; 5. Take Me to Your Reader - Laurence A. Rickels; 6. Uncalled: A Note on Kafka's Test - Werner Hamacher; 7. Avital Ronell's Body Politics - Elissa Marder; 8. Serial - A poem by Pierre Alferi; 9. War Bodies - Gil Anidjar; 10.The Indefinite Article or the Love of a Phrase - Samuel Weber; 11. Learning Impossibility: Pedagogy, Aporia, Ethics - Shireen R.K. Patell; 12. Testing Existence, Exacting Thought: Reading Ronell with Deleuze - Hent de Vries; 13. The Problems of a Generation: Thinking and Thanking Zwang and Drang - Thomas Pepper; 14. Roaming (Dis)Charges: Catastrophe of the Liquid Oozing - Tom Cohen; 15. "Vectorizing Our Thoughts Toward 'Current Events' ": For Avital Ronell - Elisabeth Weber

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A scintillating exploration of the responsibility of reading in Avital Ronell's work

About the Author

Diane Davis is an associate professor of rhetoric & writing, English, and communication studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the editor of The ÜberReader: Selected Works of Avital Ronell.

Reviews

"An engagement with Avital Ronell that, stimulated by her dazzlingly capacious intellectual and aesthetic imagination, bears on many of the most important topics in the humanities today." Frederick M. Dolan, coeditor of Between Terror and Freedom: Philosophy, Politics, and Fiction Speak of Modernity