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The UberReader: SELECTED WORKS OF AVITAL RONELL
With courage and humor, Avital Ronell takes thinking and writing into wild and dangerous places. The berReader introduces her groundbreaking work on drug rhetoric, technology's fatal attractions, and the odd prestige of stupidity. The berReader includes previously uncollected essays, selections from her books, and some of her most powerful public talks. _x000B__x000B_An extensive introduction by Diane Davis surveys and situates Ronell's hard-hitting work, and recalls some of the most important critical responses it has provoked. _x000B__x000B_
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343 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 1, 2007
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About the author
Avital Ronell
39 books75 followersAvital Ronell is Professor of German, comparative literature, and English at New York University, where she directs the Research in Trauma and Violence project, and has also written as a literary critic, a feminist, and philosopher.
Ronell to Israeli diplomats and was a performance artist before entering academia.
She gained a B.A. from Middlebury College and studied with Jacob Taubes at the Hermeneutic Institute at the Free University of Berlin. She received her Ph.D. under the advisement of Stanley Corngold at Princeton University in 1979, and then continued her studies with Jacques Derrida and Hélène Cixous in Paris.
She joined the comparative literature faculty at the University of California, Berkeley before moving to NYU. She is also a core faculty member at the European Graduate School.
Ronell to Israeli diplomats and was a performance artist before entering academia.
She gained a B.A. from Middlebury College and studied with Jacob Taubes at the Hermeneutic Institute at the Free University of Berlin. She received her Ph.D. under the advisement of Stanley Corngold at Princeton University in 1979, and then continued her studies with Jacques Derrida and Hélène Cixous in Paris.
She joined the comparative literature faculty at the University of California, Berkeley before moving to NYU. She is also a core faculty member at the European Graduate School.
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October 28, 2009
definitely a lot of deconstructionist & heideggerian metaphysics mumbo jumbo, but a nice read, and at times very insightful and enlightening. certainly puts a contemporary perspective into heidegger's technology analysis [ among many other things:]....
April 17, 2011
Intellectually challenging and fun
April 22, 2008
moments of charm and wit among mystifications and deconstructive mumbo jumbo
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