The Nick of Time

Politics, evolution and the untimely
1. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-1-74114-327-0
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 324 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 500 g

In this pathbreaking new work, Elizabeth Grosz proposes a theory of becoming in place of the prevailing emphasis on being in social, political and biological discourse. Drawing on evolutionary biology, she explores the effect of time on the organization of matter and the development of biological life. She argues that factoring in the relentless forward movement of time throws new light on the ever-growing complication of social life, and also on political struggle.

Grosz juxtaposes the work of Darwin, Nietzsche and Bergson. Each theorises time as an active phenomenon with specific effects, with a profound impact on understandings of the body in relation to time. She shows how their concepts of life, evolution, and becoming are manifest in the work of Deleuze and 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Grosz, Elizabeth

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Humanbiologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Vorklinische Medizin: Grundlagenfächer Physiologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Vorklinische Medizin: Grundlagenfächer Anatomie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.