About the Book:Avital Ronell has won worldwide acclaim for her work across literature and philosophy, psychoanalysis and popular culture, political theory and feminism, art and rhetoric, drugs and deconstruction. In works such as The Test Drive, Stupidity, Crack Wars, and The Telephone Book, she has perpetually raised new and powerful questions about how we think, what thinking does, and how we fool ourselves about the troubled space between thought and action.In this collection, some of today’s most distinguished and innovative thinkers turn their attention to Ronell’s teaching, writing, and provocations, observing how Ronell reads and what comes from reading her. By reading Ronell, and reading Ronell reading, contributors examine the ethico-political implications of her radical dislocations and carefully explicate, extend, and explore the paraconcepts addressed in her works.Table of Contents: List of contributors; Editor’s introduction; 1. Addressee: Avital – Jean-Luc Nancy; 2. Ronell as Gay Scientist – Judith Butler; 3. The Courage of the Critic: Avital Ronell and the Idea of Emergence – Peter Fenves; 4. Conference Call: Ronell, Heidegger, Oppen – Susan Bernstein; 5. Take Me to Your Reader – Laurence A. Rickels; 6. Uncalled: A Note on Kafka’s Test – Werner Hamacher; 7. Avital Ronell’s Body Politics – Elissa Marder; 8. Serial – A poem by Pierre Alferi; 9. War Bodies – Gil Anidjar; 10.The Indefinite Article or the Love of a Phrase – Samuel Weber; 11. Learning Impossibility: Pedagogy, Aporia, Ethics – Shireen R.K. Patell; 12. Testing Existence, Exacting Thought: Reading Ronell with Deleuze – Hent de Vries; 13. The Problems of a Generation: Thinking and Thanking Zwang and Drang – Thomas Pepper; 14. Roaming (Dis)Charges: Catastrophe of the Liquid Oozing – Tom Cohen; 15. “Vectorizing Our Thoughts Toward ‘Current Events’ “: For Avital Ronell – Elisabeth Weber