Elizabeth Grosz is Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University. She is the author of The Nick of Time: Politics, Evolution, and the Untimely (also published by Duke University Press); 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 has long been recognized as one of the most astute commentators on feminism, continental philosophy, and cultural studies. Renowned for her clarity and rigor, she has a well-deserved reputation as a major feminist philosopher. In Time Travels Grosz manages to surpass her already magisterial standards and produce a tour de force of originality. Here, Grosz finds her own voice and argues for a new theory of time and life. This is an exciting, inspired, and inspiring book.”-Claire Colebrook, author of Gilles Deleuze “What does it mean to introduce time into thought? Bergson formulated this question in the nineteenth century; Deleuze took it up again in postwar France. In her philosophical travels through legal studies, new technologies, and debates in Darwinism, Elizabeth Grosz brilliantly pursues its punch for us today: What would it mean for feminism to include an evolutionary materialism of time, and what would it mean for it to become an ineliminable part of a ‘new Bergsonism’ of the twenty-first century?”-John Rajchman, author of The Deleuze Connections

• Acknowledgments viiIntroduction 1Part I. Nature, Culture, and the Future 1. Darwinism and Feminism: Preliminary Investigations into a Possible Alliance 132. Darwin and the Ontology of Life 353. The Nature of Culture 43Part II. Law, Justice, and the Future 4. The Time of Violence: Derrida, Deconstruction, and Value 555. Drucilla Cornell, Identity, and the “Evolution” of Politics 71Part III. Philosophy, Knowledge, and the Future 6. Deleuze, Bergson, and the Virtual 937. Merleau-Ponty, Bergson, and the Question of Ontology 1138. The Thing 1319. Prosthetic Objects 145Part IV. Identity, Sexual Difference, and the Future 10. The Time of Thought 15511. The Force of Sexual Difference 17112. (Inhuman) Forces: Power, Pleasure, and Desire 18513. The Future of Female Sexuality 197Notes 215References 241Index 253

Elizabeth Grosz is Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University. She is the author of The Nick of Time: Politics, Evolution, and the Untimely (also published by Duke University Press); 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 has long been recognized as one of the most astute commentators on feminism, continental philosophy, and cultural studies. Renowned for her clarity and rigor, she has a well-deserved reputation as a major feminist philosopher. In Time Travels Grosz manages to surpass her already magisterial standards and produce a tour de force of originality. Here, Grosz finds her own voice and argues for a new theory of time and life. This is an exciting, inspired, and inspiring book.”-Claire Colebrook, author of Gilles Deleuze “What does it mean to introduce time into thought? Bergson formulated this question in the nineteenth century; Deleuze took it up again in postwar France. In her philosophical travels through legal studies, new technologies, and debates in Darwinism, Elizabeth Grosz brilliantly pursues its punch for us today: What would it mean for feminism to include an evolutionary materialism of time, and what would it mean for it to become an ineliminable part of a ‘new Bergsonism’ of the twenty-first century?”-John Rajchman, author of The Deleuze Connections

• Acknowledgments viiIntroduction 1Part I. Nature, Culture, and the Future 1. Darwinism and Feminism: Preliminary Investigations into a Possible Alliance 132. Darwin and the Ontology of Life 353. The Nature of Culture 43Part II. Law, Justice, and the Future 4. The Time of Violence: Derrida, Deconstruction, and Value 555. Drucilla Cornell, Identity, and the “Evolution” of Politics 71Part III. Philosophy, Knowledge, and the Future 6. Deleuze, Bergson, and the Virtual 937. Merleau-Ponty, Bergson, and the Question of Ontology 1138. The Thing 1319. Prosthetic Objects 145Part IV. Identity, Sexual Difference, and the Future 10. The Time of Thought 15511. The Force of Sexual Difference 17112. (Inhuman) Forces: Power, Pleasure, and Desire 18513. The Future of Female Sexuality 197Notes 215References 241Index 253

Elizabeth Grosz is Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University. She is the author of The Nick of Time: Politics, Evolution, and the Untimely (also published by Duke University Press); 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 has long been recognized as one of the most astute commentators on feminism, continental philosophy, and cultural studies. Renowned for her clarity and rigor, she has a well-deserved reputation as a major feminist philosopher. In Time Travels Grosz manages to surpass her already magisterial standards and produce a tour de force of originality. Here, Grosz finds her own voice and argues for a new theory of time and life. This is an exciting, inspired, and inspiring book.”-Claire Colebrook, author of Gilles Deleuze “What does it mean to introduce time into thought? Bergson formulated this question in the nineteenth century; Deleuze took it up again in postwar France. In her philosophical travels through legal studies, new technologies, and debates in Darwinism, Elizabeth Grosz brilliantly pursues its punch for us today: What would it mean for feminism to include an evolutionary materialism of time, and what would it mean for it to become an ineliminable part of a ‘new Bergsonism’ of the twenty-first century?”-John Rajchman, author of The Deleuze Connections

• Acknowledgments viiIntroduction 1Part I. Nature, Culture, and the Future 1. Darwinism and Feminism: Preliminary Investigations into a Possible Alliance 132. Darwin and the Ontology of Life 353. The Nature of Culture 43Part II. Law, Justice, and the Future 4. The Time of Violence: Derrida, Deconstruction, and Value 555. Drucilla Cornell, Identity, and the “Evolution” of Politics 71Part III. Philosophy, Knowledge, and the Future 6. Deleuze, Bergson, and the Virtual 937. Merleau-Ponty, Bergson, and the Question of Ontology 1138. The Thing 1319. Prosthetic Objects 145Part IV. Identity, Sexual Difference, and the Future 10. The Time of Thought 15511. The Force of Sexual Difference 17112. (Inhuman) Forces: Power, Pleasure, and Desire 18513. The Future of Female Sexuality 197Notes 215References 241Index 253