Nick of Time
Subtitle: Politics, Evolution and the Untimely
Publisher: Allen & Unwin; Routledge
Published: 2004
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9781741143270
Subjects: Philosophy and ethics; Political science; Cultural studies; Darwin, charles, 1809-1882; Bergson, henri, 1859-1941; Time; Human body
Description: "In this pathbreaking new work, Elizabeth Grosz proposes a theory of becoming in place of the prevailing emphasis on being in social, political and biological discourse. Drawing on evolutionary biology, she explores the effect of time on the organization of matter and the development of biological life. She argues that factoring in the relentless forward movement of time throws new light on the ever-growing complication of social life, and also on political struggle."

"Grosz juxtaposes the work of Darwin, Nietzsche and Bergson. Each theorises time as an active phenomenon with specific effects, with a profound impact on understandings of the body in relation to time. She shows how their concepts of life, evolution, and becoming are manifest in the work of Deleuze and Irigaray".--BOOKJACKET.