The Test Drive PDF
Preview The Test Drive
Even in its most hallucinatory conditions of satisfaction, the ego senses that something may be missing; it becomes insecure and must start up the machinery of testing. The Test Drive AVITAL RONELL With Photographs by Suzanne Doppelt University of Illinois Press Urbana and Chicago Copyright © 5 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. All rights reserved. The bust of Robert Boyle reproduced on pages , , is from The Royal Collection © , Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth . The Prints on pages and are from the archives of the Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division (ppmsca and cph b). The photograph on page is from the Photo Library, Central Library; // , image catalog nss. All other photographs are © by Suzanne Doppelt. This project was supported in part by a grant from the New York University Research Chal- lenge Fund Program. Manufactured in the United States of America c p This book is printed on acid-free paper. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Ronell, Avital. p. cm. The test drive / Avital Ronell. Includes bibliographical references and index. --- (cloth : alkaline paper) . Methodology. . Testing. . Title. . –dc For my incomparable teacher and friend J D Zu lieben ist gut: denn Liebe ist schwer. Liebhaben von Mensch zu Mensch, das ist vielleicht das Schwerste, was uns aufgegeben ist, das Äusserste, die letzte Probe und Prüfung, die Arbeit, für die alle andere Arbeit nur Vorbereitung ist. — Rainer Maria Rilke, Briefe I, May , [It is good to love, for love is hard. Tenderness from one person to another is perhaps the most difficult task assigned to us – the most extreme, the final test and examination, the work, for which all other work is only a preparation.] Contents Proving Grounds Trial Runs On Passing the Test The Test Drive: On Nietzsche’s Gay Science Trial Balloon: Husserl to Front Weatherman # Testing Your Love, or: Breaking Up Notes Index The Test Drive
The list of books you might like
