The Nick of Time
Politics, Evolution, and the Untimely
1st Edition
Published on 6. December 2004
326 pages
978-0-8223-8603-2 (ISBN)
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Prominent feminist theorist rethinks the relationship between evolution and the biological body through the study of three key figures--Darwin, Nietzsche, and Bergson.
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12/2004
Duke University Press
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Elizabeth Grosz is Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers University. She is the author of Architecture from the Outside: Essays on Virtual and Real Space; Space, Time, and Perversion: Essays on the Politics of Bodies; and Volatile Bodies: Toward a Corporeal Feminism. She is the editor of Becomings: Explorations in Time, Memory, and Futures.
Content
Acknowledgments vii
Abbreviations ix
Introduction: To the Untimely 1
Part I. Darwin and Evolution
1. Darwinian Matters: Life, Force, and Change 17
2. Biological Difference 40
3. The Evolution of Sex and Race 64
Part II. Nietzsche and Overcoming
4. Nietzsche's Darwin 95
5. History and the Untimely 113
6. The Eternal Return and the Overman 135
Part III: Bergson and Becoming
7. Bergsonian Difference 155
8. The Philosophy of Life 185
9. Intuition and the Virtual 215
Conclusion: The Future 244
Notes 263
References 297
Index 309
Abbreviations ix
Introduction: To the Untimely 1
Part I. Darwin and Evolution
1. Darwinian Matters: Life, Force, and Change 17
2. Biological Difference 40
3. The Evolution of Sex and Race 64
Part II. Nietzsche and Overcoming
4. Nietzsche's Darwin 95
5. History and the Untimely 113
6. The Eternal Return and the Overman 135
Part III: Bergson and Becoming
7. Bergsonian Difference 155
8. The Philosophy of Life 185
9. Intuition and the Virtual 215
Conclusion: The Future 244
Notes 263
References 297
Index 309
