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ISBN 978-0-252-07311-3 c o m p a r a t i v e l i t e r a t u r e ⁄ p h i l o s o p h y “Where does one find that mix of clear, quick, unexpected, spectacular, and precise readings other than in Ronell’s work? Her pages are singular. She brings us into contact with urgent, traumatic cultural moments at the same time that she makes the case for reading philosophy and literature. We are thrown into the world, but not without new resources, and for this we can only offer gratitude for the labor of reading she performs and incites. She is brilliant in the sense that she gives light without covering over what remains difficult and enigmatic. And if there is, always, inadvertent joy and surprise to be found in the turns she takes in her pages, so too is there a relentless and demanding care for words, an ethics of reading that takes us in a direction far from moralism. With Ronell, we never know precisely where we are going, but we are always willing to go. This is work that is exacting, demanding, affirmative, critical, hilarious, urgent.” — Judith Butler, Maxine Elliot Professor, University of California, Berkeley “One of the most original, bold, and surprising lines of inquiry in the contemporary academy.” — Gregory Ulmer, author of Internet Invention: From Literacy to Electracy “With brevity and power, this Ronell ‘primer’ will be immensely useful to scholars, students, and teachers throughout the humanities.” — Jeffrey T. Nealon, author of Alterity Politics: Ethics and Performative Subjectivity With courage and humor, Avital Ronell takes thinking and writing into wild anddangerousplaces.TheÜberReaderintroduceshergroundbreakingworkon der drug rhetoric, technology’s fatal attractions, and the odd prestige of stupidity. The ÜberReader includes previously uncollected essays, selections from her der books, and some of her most powerful public talks. An extensive introduction by Diane Davis surveys and situates Ronell’s hardhitting work, and recalls some of the most important critical responses it has provoked. Avital Ronell is professor of German, comparative literature, and English at New York University. Diane Davis is an associate professor of rhetoric and writing , English, and communication studies at the University of Texas, Austin. University of Illinois Press Urbana and Chicago www.press.uillinois.edu Cover photograph: “The Medium Eva C. with a Materialization on Her Head and a Luminous Apparition Between Her Hands” by Albert von Schrenck-Notzing. Institut für Grenzgebiete der Psychologie und Psychohygiene, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany. Edited by Diane Davis TheÜberReader ...

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