Avital Ronell is University Professor of the Humanities and a professor of German, English, and comparative literature at New York University, where she codirects the Trauma and Violence Transdisciplinary Studies program. She is also Jacques Derrida Professor of Media and Philosophy at the European Graduate School in Switzerland. She is the author of Dictations: On Haunted Writing; The Telephone Book; Crack Wars; Finitude’s Score; Stupidity; and The Test Drive.
Anne Dufourmantelle is a professor of philosophy at the +cole d'architecture La Cillette, Paris. She is the author of Blind Date: Sex and Philosophy and coauthored (with Jacques Derrida) Of Hospitality. Catherine Porter is a professor emerita of French, SUNY, Cortland, and a former president of the Modern Language Association.
Preface: The Scene of Fighting | p. vii |
Translator's Note | p. xiii |
When Philosophy Meant the Love of Wisdom | p. 1 |
The Finite but Unending Goethe Loop | p. 7 |
Killer Texts | p. 18 |
Ambivalent Stances: Philosophy in Anger and Meditation | p. 23 |
Valerie Solanas: For a Radical, Politically Incorrect, and Morally Indefensible Feminism | p. 38 |
On Television: The Feminization of World | p. 47 |
On Drugs, Polydependencies, and the Drama of Immunodeficiency | p. 59 |
Nietzsche: Symptom and Virus | p. 76 |
On Trial: The Test Drive | p. 91 |
A Mutant Splice of French Theory | p. 110 |
The Disaster of Childhood: A Textual Prompt | p. 129 |
Saying Good-Bye to My Teacher: A Home Video | p. 148 |
Index | p. 165 |
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