Proving grounds: On Nietzsche and the test drive

MLN - Modern Language Notes

Volumn 118, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 653-669

  Ronell, Avital ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 34548338934     PISSN: 00267910     EISSN: 10806598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/mln.2003.0063     Document Type: Review

References (14)

1. Jacques Derrida, Negotations: Interventions and Interviews 1971-2000, Elizabeth Rottenberg, ed. (Stanford: Stanford University Press 2002).
2. The reference here is to Kafka's parable, "Abraham," about which I have written in Stupidity (University of Illinois Press 2002). Kafka multiplies Abraham into a number of hypothetical characters, one of whom is the dumbest kid in the class. Stuck in the back row-academic death row-he thinks he hears his name called out on Commencement Day, when the prize for the smartest pupil is about to be handed out. Hearing his name called, he rises to accept the prize. Well, if he thinks it's meant for him, maybe it is. Thus Kafka, taking down the urpatriarch.
3. See Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer, Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life (Princeton: Princeton University Press 1985).
4. Jacques Derrida, "Interpretations at War: Kant, the Jew the German" in Acts of Religion, Gil Anidjar, ed. (New York: Routledge 2002).
5. Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, Walter Kaufmann, trans. (New York: Random House 1974).
6. (Translation of: Die fröhliche Wissenschaft, Karl Schlechta, ed. Frankfurt am Main, Berlin: Ullstein Verlag 1979).
7. Edmund Husserl, The Crisis in European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology (Evanston: Northwestern University Press 1970), Chapter five, §2: "The positivistic reduction of the idea of science. The 'crisis' of science as the loss of its meaning for life. "
8. In Memories for Paul de Man (New York: Columbia University Press 1986), and elsewhere.
9. Paul de Man, "The Concept of Irony" in The Aesthetic Ideology, Andrzej Warminiski, ed. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press 1998).
10. Husserl, The Crisis in European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology, Chapter five, §2.
11. See especially Heidegger's discussion of the technological implications of this utterance in What is Called Thinking? (New York: Harper & Row 1968).
12. For the theoretical status of evidence, cf. Rüdiger Campe, "Bella Evidentia. Begriff und Figur von Evidenz in Baumgartens Ästhetik" in Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 49 (2001), 243-255.
13. The Gay Science, 307.
14. Franz Kafka, "Vor dem Gesetz," Avital Ronell trans. , in Acts of Literature, Derek Attridge, ed. (New York: Routledge 1992).