Grosz The Nick of Time

Politics, Evolution, and the Untimely
1. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8603-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 326 Seiten

Prominent feminist theorist rethinks the relationship between evolution and the biological body through the study of three key figures--Darwin, Nietzsche, and Bergson.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Grosz, Elizabeth

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Zeitmessung: Physikalische und Technische Aspekte
• Naturwissenschaften Astronomie Zeiterfassung, Chronologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Evolutionsbiologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie des Geistes, Neurophilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.