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The ÜberReader : selected works of Avital Ronell

Title
The ÜberReader : selected works of Avital Ronell / edited by Diane Davis.
Author
Ronell, Avital.
Publication
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, ©2008.
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Additional Authors
Davis, D. Diane (Debra Diane), 1963-
Description
xxxv, 343 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Alternative Title
Über reader
Subject
  • 1900-1999
  • Popular culture > United States > History > 20th century
  • Avant-garde (Aesthetics) > United States
  • Literature, Modern > 20th century > History and criticism
  • Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
  • Literature, Modern
  • Popular culture
  • United States
Genre/Form
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  • History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Part I The Call of Technology -- 1 Delay Call Forwarding 5 -- 2 Support Our Tropes: Reading Desert Storm 38 -- 3 TraumaTV: Twelve Steps Beyond the Pleasure Principle 63 -- 4 State of the Art: Julia Scher's Disinscription of National Security 89 -- Part II Freedom and Obligation: Minority Report on Children, Addicts, Outlaws, and Ghosts -- 5 On the Unrelenting Creepiness of Childhood: Lyotard, Kid-Tested 101 -- 6 Toward a Narcoanalysis 128 -- 7 Deviant Payback: The Aims of Valerie Solanas 141 -- Part III Psyche-Soma: The Finite Body -- 9 A Note on the Failure of Man's Custodianship 161 -- 10 The Disappearance and Returns of the Idiot 168 -- 11 The Philosophical Code: Dennis Cooper's Pacific Rim 188 -- Part IV Danke! et Adieu: On Hookups and Breakups -- 12 The Sacred Alien: Heidegger's Reading of Holderlin's "Andenken" 205 -- 13 On Friendship; Or, Kathy Goes to Hell 227 -- 14 Loving Your Enemy 240 -- Part V The Fading Empire of Cognition -- 15 Slow Learner 259 -- 16 The Experimental Disposition: Nietzsche's Discovery of America (Or, Why the Present Administration Sees Everything in Terms of a Test) 293 -- 17 Koan Practice or Taking Down the Test 307 -- 18 "Is It Happening?" 324.
Call Number
JFE 08-6947
ISBN
  • 9780252030666
  • 0252030664
  • 9780252073113
  • 0252073118
  • 9780252092299
  • 0252092295
LCCN
2007030327
OCLC
72868047
Author
Ronell, Avital.
Title
The ÜberReader : selected works of Avital Ronell / edited by Diane Davis.
Imprint
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, ©2008.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Inhaltsverzeichnis
Contributor biographical information
Chronological Term
1900-1999
Added Author
Davis, D. Diane (Debra Diane), 1963-
Research Call Number
JFE 08-6947
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