Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Elizabeth Grosz is Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University. She is the author of Architecture from the Outside: Essays on Virtual and Real Space; Space, Time, and Perversion: Essays on the Politics of Bodies; and Volatile Bodies: Toward a Corporeal Feminism. She is the editor of Becomings: Explorations in Time, Memory, and Futures.
“Elizabeth Grosz traces a timely path through the work of three major thinkers. Darwin, Nietzsche, and Bergson, each in his own way, force a rethinking of duration and transformation at the interchange between nature and culture. <i>The Nick of Time</i> suggestively connects their trajectories, drawing them together into a contemporary dialogue on the politics and philosophy of change.”-Brian Massumi, author of <i>Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation</i> “Elizabeth Grosz’s <i>The Nick of Time: Politics, Evolution and the Untimely</i> is a major work. It achieves a richly nuanced and sweeping reconsideration of temporality in the context of contemporary feminist theory, critical theory, and theories of evolution. The considerations of Darwin, Nietzsche, Bergson, Deleuze, and Irigaray are especially impressive. <i>The Nick of Time</i> is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding how memory, historicity, and politics connect to and are reconfigured by temporality.”-N. Katherine Hayles, author of <i>How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics</i> “Superbly written, deftly executed, and wonderfully instructive, <i>The Nick of Time</i> is a first-class piece of writing and thinking. It is unique in that it is interested in ‘philosophy of life’ issues not only for their own sake but also because of Elizabeth Grosz’s wider theoretical and practical commitments, such as feminism and a radical cultural politics.”-Keith Ansell Pearson, author of <i>Germinal Life: The Difference and Repetition of Deleuze</i>
Grosz develops her argument by juxtaposing the work of three major figures in Western thought: Charles Darwin, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Henri Bergson. She reveals that in theorizing time as an active, positive phenomenon with its own characteristics and specific effects, each of these thinkers had a profound effect on contemporary understandings of the body in relation to time. She shows how their allied concepts of life, evolution, and becoming are manifest in the work of Gilles Deleuze and Luce Irigaray. Throughout The Nick of Time, Grosz emphasizes the political and cultural imperative to fundamentally rethink time: the more clearly we understand our temporal location as beings straddling the past and the future without the security of a stable and abiding present, the more transformation becomes conceivable.
Abbreviations ix
Introduction: To the Untimely 1
Part I. Darwin and Evolution
1. Darwinian Matters: Life, Force, and Change 17
2. Biological Difference 40
3. The Evolution of Sex and Race 64
Part II. Nietzsche and Overcoming
4. Nietzsche's Darwin 95
5. History and the Untimely 113
6. The Eternal Return and the Overman 135
Part III: Bergson and Becoming
7. Bergsonian Difference 155
8. The Philosophy of Life 185
9. Intuition and the Virtual 215
Conclusion: The Future 244
Notes 263
References 297
Index 309
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Elizabeth Grosz is Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University. She is the author of Architecture from the Outside: Essays on Virtual and Real Space; Space, Time, and Perversion: Essays on the Politics of Bodies; and Volatile Bodies: Toward a Corporeal Feminism. She is the editor of Becomings: Explorations in Time, Memory, and Futures.