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Book SynopsisWith the advent of the new millennium, the notion of the future, and of time in general, has taken on greater significance in postmodern thought. Although the equally pervasive and abstract concept of space has generated a vast body of disciplines, time, and the related idea of becoming (transforming, mutating, and metamorphosing) have until now received little theoretical attention.
This volume explores the ontological, epistemic, and political implications of rethinking time as a dynamic and irreversible force. Drawing on ideas from the natural sciences, as well as from literature, philosophy, politics, and cultural analyses, its authors seek to stimulate further research in both the sciences and the humanities which highlights the temporal foundations of matter and culture.
The first section of the volume, The Becoming of the World, provides a broad introduction to the concepts of time. The second section, Knowing and Doing Otherwise, addresses the forces within cult
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Becomings is a tightly integrated and very exciting collection of essays by a group of careful and highly gifted scholars from several disciplines... This book should be mandatory reading for anyone interested in Bergson and it should be a high priority for anyone interested in Deleuze....It is a book for anyone who is truly interested in philosophy.
-- Ladelle McWhorter, University of Richmond * The Journal of Speculative Philosophy *
