Description
Book SynopsisExplores the nature of time and its implications for questions of politics, ethics, and the self. Shows how a conception of time that breaks with common sense notions of chronological order can help us rethink the understandings of identity, difference, power, resistance, and overcoming.
Trade Review“Nathan Widder’s book will be invaluable to those who see that classic theories of time insufficiently speak to the terms of contemporary politics. The style and organization of the book express the philosophy embraced. The engagements with Aristotle, Bergson, and Deleuze are compelling. And the intercalated explorations of sense, common sense, discontinuity, micropolitics, and ‘syntheses’ of time are superb.”
—William E. Connolly,The Johns Hopkins University
“Reflections on Time and Politics is a highly innovative book in both its style and content. Each of its eighteen ‘sequences of thought’ focuses on an aspect of Gilles Deleuze’s theory of time and explores its implications for political philosophy. The text is extraordinarily wide-ranging and will draw its readers into an exhilarating and provocative ride through the philosophy of time found in thinkers as diverse as Aristotle, Hegel, and Bergson. This book will establish Widder as one of the most creative and stimulating of contemporary political theorists.”
—Daniel W. Smith,Purdue University
“An untimely book that is just in time!”
—William E. Connolly,The Johns Hopkins University
“This is a thoughtful, if idealistic, analysis that appropriately addresses a major problem of our age.”
—J. M. Boyle Choice
