About this title: Beginning with Nietzsche's discovery of the 'experimental disposition', Ronell explores testing's ascension to truth in modern practice. To know something, and to know that it is true, has never been a simple matter of recognition and assent. Instead, increasing numbers of tests of ever increasing complexity have been established to determine and constitute what is true, probable, or verifiable. Tests are pervasive, and inflect the master-narratives of our historical existence. The Bible dramatically presents tests of Abraham and Job, great works of literature track the tested subject, the ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780252029509ISBN:025202950X
Description: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 025202950x. Stamp on bottom edge, review copy sticker on front fly-leaf, otherwise near new; text clean and tight; 1.4 x 9.1 x 6.2 Inches; 384 pages. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS Country = UNITED STATES
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780252075353ISBN:0252075358
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 356 pages. Deals with the war perpetrated by highly determined reactionary forces on science and research. this work explores the crucial operations of an uncontestable legitimating machine. it offers a tour-de-force reading of legal, pharmaceutical, artistic, scientific, zen, and historical grids that depend upon different types of testability. 29 photographs (Paperback) read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780252075353ISBN:0252075358
Description: New. Deals with the war perpetrated by highly determined reactionary forces on science and research. This work explores the crucial operations of an uncontestable legitimating machine. It offers a tour-de-force reading of legal, pharmaceutical, artistic, s... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780252075353ISBN:0252075358
Description: New. "The Test Drive" deals with the war perpetrated by highly determined reactionary forces on science and research. How does the government at once promote and prohibit scientific testing and undercut the importance of experimentation? To what extent is... read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN-13:9780252075353ISBN:0252075358
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780252029509ISBN:025202950X
Description: Good in Very Good jacket. DJ has edge wear, creases, scratches, rubbed corners/spine. Boards have edge wear, rubbed corners/spine. Notes/underlining in pencil in text. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN-13:9780252075353ISBN:0252075358
Description: New. Please note that deliveries to addresses in the UK and Europe will be in 4-14 business days. Other countries should refer to Alibris standard times. "The Test Drive" deals with the war perpetrated by highly determined reactionary forces on science and research. How does the government at once promote and prohibit scientific testing and undercut the importance of experimentation? To what extent is testing at the forefront of theoretical and practical concerns today? Addressed to those who ... read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN-13:9780252075353ISBN:0252075358
Description: New. PLEASE NOTE: All books are promptly shipped from our UK warehouse using Royal Mail International Priority mail. Heavier or more expensive books are shipped with a TRACKING NUMBER. Professional and reliable bookseller (est.1987). A philosophical and cultural analysis of the motivation for and ubiquity of testing. read more
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