The Nick of Time: Politics, Evolution, and the Untimely

by Elizabeth Grosz

Book Overview

In this pathbreaking philosophical work, Elizabeth Grosz points the way toward a theory of becoming to replace the prevailing ontologies of being in social, political, and biological discourse. Arguing that theories of temporality have significant and underappreciated relevance to the social dimensions of science and the political dimensions of struggle, Grosz engages key theoretical concerns related to the reality of time. She explores the effect...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082233397X
• ISBN13: 9780822333975
• Release Date: December 2004
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.3"