The Nick of Time: Politics, Evolution and the Untimely

ISBN-13: 9780367719845 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 324 str.

Elizabeth Grosz

Opis

Focusing on the work of Darwin, Nietzsche and Bergson, showing its relevance to cultural and social theory influential theorist Elizabeth Grosz investigates the social and political implications of evolutionary change.

Recenzje

'Always one to take on big questions, Grosz wants to shift the attention of feminist and other radical social theory to the natural sciences, in order to ask how the biological induces the cultural and, further, how our immersion in time affects the materiality of living beings. Her characteristically lucid and passionate style engages imagination and intellect equally.'
Susan Sheridan, Professor of Women's Studies, Flinders University

Spis treści

Acknowledgments, Abbreviations, Introduction: To the Untimely, PART I. DARWIN AND EVOLUTION, 1. Darwinian Matters: Life, Force, and Change, 2. Biological Difference, 3. The Evolution of Sex and Race, PART II. NIETZSCHE AND OVERCOMING, 4. Nietzsche’s Darwin, 5. History and the Untimely, 6. The Eternal Return and the Overman, PART III. BERGSON AND BECOMING, 7. Bergsonian Difference, 8. The Philosophy of Life, 9. Intuition and the Virtual, Conclusion: The Future, Notes, References, Index

O autorze

Elizabeth Grosz is the author of six previous books including the widely read Volatile Bodies (Allen + Unwin, 1994) and has been nominated for many prizes for her work, including the New South Wales Premier's Award and the James Russell Lowell Prize. Hugely influential in many fields of critical theory, she has taught at (amongst others) the University of Sydney, Monash University, Harvard, Princeton, and Johns Hopkins University. She is currently Professor in the Department of Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers University in the USA.