Time Travels

Time Travels

Feminism, Nature, Power

  • Auteur: Grosz, Elizabeth; Grewal, Inderpal; Kaplan, Caren; Wiegman, Robyn
  • Éditeur: Duke University Press
  • Collection: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies
  • ISBN: 9780822335535
  • eISBN Pdf: 9780822386551
  • Lieu de publication:  Durham , United States
  • Année de publication électronique: 2005
  • Mois : Juin
  • Pages: 272
  • DDC: 115
  • Langue: Anglais
Recently the distinguished feminist theorist Elizabeth Grosz has turned her critical acumen toward rethinking time and duration. Time Travels brings her trailblazing essays together to show how reconceptualizing temporality transforms and revitalizes key scholarly and political projects. In these essays, Grosz demonstrates how imagining different relations between the past, present, and future alters understandings of social and scientific projects ranging from theories of justice to evolutionary biology, and she explores the radical implications of the reordering of these projects for feminist, queer, and critical race theories.

Grosz’s reflections on how rethinking time might generate new understandings of nature, culture, subjectivity, and politics are wide ranging. She moves from a compelling argument that Charles Darwin’s notion of biological and cultural evolution can potentially benefit feminist, queer, and antiracist agendas to an exploration of modern jurisprudence’s reliance on the notion that justice is only immanent in the future and thus is always beyond reach. She examines Henri Bergson’s philosophy of duration in light of the writings of Gilles Deleuze, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and William James, and she discusses issues of sexual difference, identity, pleasure, and desire in relation to the thought of Deleuze, Friedrich Nietzsche, Michel Foucault, and Luce Irigaray. Together these essays demonstrate the broad scope and applicability of Grosz’s thinking about time as an undertheorized but uniquely productive force.

  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Nature, Culture, and the Future
    • 1. Darwin and Feminism: Preliminary Investigations into a Possible Alliance
    • 2. Darwin and the Ontology of Life
    • 3. The Nature of Culture
  • Part II. Law, Justice, and the Future
    • 4. The Time of Violence: Derrida, Deconstruction, and Value
    • 5. Drucilla Cornell, Identity, and the ‘‘Evolution’’ of Politics
  • Part III. Philosophy, Knowledge, and the Future
    • 6. Deleuze, Bergson, and the Virtual
    • 7. Merleau-Ponty, Bergson, and the Question of Ontology
    • 8. The Thing
    • 9. Prosthetic Objects
  • Part IV. Identity, Sexual Difference, and the Future
    • 10. The Time of Thought
    • 11. The Force of Sexual Difference
    • 12. (Inhuman) Forces: Power, Pleasure, and Desire
    • 13. The Future of Female Sexuality
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index
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