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Book SynopsisCombines engagements with modern and postmodern theories of identity, difference, contingency, and time with strategic forays into ancient, early Christian, and medieval philosophy. This work also provides the philosophical underpinnings for a politics and ethics of difference.
Trade Review"[Widder] seeks to show that the rejection of metaphysical foundations lead neither to a postmodern ironism or skepticism nor to a negative theology... A pertinent and instructive contribution to contemporary thinking in the area of philosophy and political theory." Keith Ansell-Pearson, author of Germinal Life: The Difference and Repetition of Deleuze "Have you heard that the philosophy of difference is a modern or, even, postmodern event? Nathan Widder puts that story to bed. This is genealogy in the most productive sense of the word: a disaggregation of nostalgic narratives that render the modern world fragmented and lost in order to spur the return to a time that never was." William E. Connolly, author of Neuropolitics: Thinking, Culture, Speed
