Time Travels

Feminism, Nature, Power

AvElizabeth Grosz

Häftad, Engelska, 2005

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Recently the distinguished feminist theorist Elizabeth Grosz has turned her critical acumen toward rethinking time and duration. Time Travels brings her trailblazing essays together to show how reconceptualizing temporality transforms and revitalizes key scholarly and political projects. In these essays, Grosz demonstrates how imagining different relations between the past, present, and future alters understandings of social and scientific projects ranging from theories of justice to evolutionary biology, and she explores the radical implications of the reordering of these projects for feminist, queer, and critical race theories.Grosz’s reflections on how rethinking time might generate new understandings of nature, culture, subjectivity, and politics are wide ranging. She moves from a compelling argument that Charles Darwin’s notion of biological and cultural evolution can potentially benefit feminist, queer, and antiracist agendas to an exploration of modern jurisprudence’s reliance on the notion that justice is only immanent in the future and thus is always beyond reach. She examines Henri Bergson’s philosophy of duration in light of the writings of Gilles Deleuze, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and William James, and she discusses issues of sexual difference, identity, pleasure, and desire in relation to the thought of Deleuze, Friedrich Nietzsche, Michel Foucault, and Luce Irigaray. Together these essays demonstrate the broad scope and applicability of Grosz’s thinking about time as an undertheorized but uniquely productive force.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2005-06-22
Mått:155 x 235 x 15 mm
Vikt:400 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies
Antal sidor:272
Förlag:Duke University Press
ISBN:9780822335665

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Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

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.

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“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

Innehållsförteckning

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