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Testing, to prove what is true, probable, or verifiable — & as inflections upon Master Narratives. Ronell wonders where the urge comes from-what could satisfy it? And she examines it in Husserl, Popper, Freud, Lyotard, Derrida & others including Zen philosophie, in White House strategies of torture & intelligence gathering, & in twentieth-century philosophy of science, positing that this provisional logic (of hypothesis, probability, proof) displaces our relation to truth, belonging to, at the same as it undercuts, the scientific impulse. Aye, there's the rub! Nietzsche seems the key figure in tre tail of the book—an examination (in Ronell's look at the testing of love) of his need as a dependant to subject Wagner to criticism & analysis. Aye, there's that rub again! The best part of breaking up … |
