Elizabeth Grosz

The Nick of Time

Politics, Evolution, and the Untimely

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Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 166mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 576g
• ISBN-13: 9780822334002
• ISBN-10: 0822334003
• Artikelnr.: 21067291

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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