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Book SynopsisEssays on the relationship between temporatlity and feminism that focus on the political and philosophical ramifications of being future oriented.
Trade Review“Elizabeth Grosz has long been recognized as one of the most astute commentators on feminism, continental philosophy, and cultural studies. Renowned for her clarity and rigor, she has a well-deserved reputation as a major feminist philosopher. In
Time Travels Grosz manages to surpass her already magisterial standards and produce a tour de force of originality. Here, Grosz finds her own voice and argues for a new theory of time and life. This is an exciting, inspired, and inspiring book.”—Claire Colebrook, author of
Gilles Deleuze“What does it mean to introduce time into thought? Bergson formulated this question in the nineteenth century; Deleuze took it up again in postwar France. In her philosophical travels through legal studies, new technologies, and debates in Darwinism, Elizabeth Grosz brilliantly pursues its punch for us today: What would it mean for feminism to include an evolutionary materialism of time, and what would it mean for it to become an ineliminable part of a ‘new Bergsonism’ of the twenty-first century?”—John Rajchman, author of
The Deleuze ConnectionsTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vii
Introduction 1
Part I. Nature, Culture, and the Future
1. Darwinism and Feminism: Preliminary Investigations into a Possible Alliance 13
2. Darwin and the Ontology of Life 35
3. The Nature of Culture 43
Part II. Law, Justice, and the Future
4. The Time of Violence: Derrida, Deconstruction, and Value 55
5. Drucilla Cornell, Identity, and the “Evolution” of Politics 71
Part III. Philosophy, Knowledge, and the Future
6. Deleuze, Bergson, and the Virtual 93
7. Merleau-Ponty, Bergson, and the Question of Ontology 113
8. The Thing 131
9. Prosthetic Objects 145
Part IV. Identity, Sexual Difference, and the Future
10. The Time of Thought 155
11. The Force of Sexual Difference 171
12. (Inhuman) Forces: Power, Pleasure, and Desire 185
13. The Future of Female Sexuality 197
Notes 215
References 241
Index 253
