Temporal Politics

Reviews / Votes

Little's Temporal Politics urges a reimagined understanding of temporality in the study of politics. [...] The successive content chapters offer a political account of temporality and temporal accounts of political events. -- R. A. Harper * CHOICE * What does it mean politically that time is experienced in different ways? Temporal Politics alerts us to the fact that disputes over time lie at the heart of settler-colonialism, border politics and democratic crisis. Little brings enormous clarity to notoriously complex philosophies of time and makes them speak powerfully to the practical question of what is to be done. * Anne McNevin, The New School for Social Research * A sophisticated and highly intelligent assessment of the subject, it is an original and important study that works very well on two complementary levels: first, as an incisive and reflective analysis of the current state - and blind spots - of political theory; and second, as a perceptive examination of temporality. I have no doubt that the book is a distinctive and innovative contribution to political theory, drawing on several developments of the past twenty years and carrying them further on, itself a contributor to the trends it investigates. -- Michael Freeden, University of Oxford (emeritus)