{"product_id":"the-nick-of-time-9780822333975","title":"The Nick of Time","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eProminent feminist theorist rethinks the relationship between evolution and the biological body through the study of three key figures--Darwin, Nietzsche, and Bergson.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Elizabeth Grosz traces a timely path through the work of three major thinkers. Darwin, Nietzsche, and Bergson, each in his own way, force a rethinking of duration and transformation at the interchange between nature and culture. \u003ci\u003eThe Nick of Time\u003c\/i\u003e suggestively connects their trajectories, drawing them together into a contemporary dialogue on the politics and philosophy of change.”—Brian Massumi, author of \u003ci\u003eParables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Elizabeth Grosz’s \u003ci\u003eThe Nick of Time: Politics, Evolution and the Untimely\u003c\/i\u003e is a major work. It achieves a richly nuanced and sweeping reconsideration of temporality in the context of contemporary feminist theory, critical theory, and theories of evolution. The considerations of Darwin, Nietzsche, Bergson, Deleuze, and Irigaray are especially impressive. \u003ci\u003eThe Nick of Time\u003c\/i\u003e is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding how memory, historicity, and politics connect to and are reconfigured by temporality.”—N. Katherine Hayles, author of \u003ci\u003eHow We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Superbly written, deftly executed, and wonderfully instructive, \u003ci\u003eThe Nick of Time\u003c\/i\u003e is a first-class piece of writing and thinking. It is unique in that it is interested in ‘philosophy of life’ issues not only for their own sake but also because of Elizabeth Grosz’s wider theoretical and practical commitments, such as feminism and a radical cultural politics.”—Keith Ansell Pearson, author of \u003ci\u003eGerminal Life: The Difference and Repetition of Deleuze\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments vii\u003cbr\u003e Abbreviations ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: To the Untimely 1\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Darwin and Evolution \u003cbr\u003e 1. Darwinian Matters: Life, Force, and Change 17\u003cbr\u003e 2. Biological Difference 40\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Evolution of Sex and Race 64\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Nietzsche and Overcoming \u003cbr\u003e 4. Nietzsche's Darwin 95\u003cbr\u003e 5. History and the Untimely 113\u003cbr\u003e 6. The Eternal Return and the Overman 135\u003cbr\u003e Part III: Bergson and Becoming \u003cbr\u003e 7. Bergsonian Difference 155\u003cbr\u003e 8. The Philosophy of Life 185\u003cbr\u003e 9. Intuition and the Virtual 215\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: The Future 244\u003cbr\u003e Notes 263\u003cbr\u003e References 297\u003cbr\u003e Index 309","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406036476247,"sku":"9780822333975","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822333975.jpg?v=1730494323","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-nick-of-time-9780822333975","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}