Elizabeth Grosz

Becoming Undone

Darwinian Reflections on Life, Politics, and Art

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Produktbeschreibung

Elizabeth Grosz addresses three related concepts-life, politics, and art-by exploring the implications of Charles Darwins account of the evolution of species.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. August 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 154mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 404g
• ISBN-13: 9780822350712
• ISBN-10: 0822350718
• Artikelnr.: 33625481

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth Grosz is Professor of Women’s Studies and Gender Studies at Rutgers University. She is the author of several books, including Chaos, Territory, Art: Deleuze and the Framing of the Earth, as well as The Nick of Time: Politics, Evolution, and the Untimely and Time Travels: Feminism, Nature, Power, both also published by Duke University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction
Part 1. Life: Human and Inhuman Becomings
1. The Inhuman in the Humanities: Darwin and the Ends of Man
2. Deleuze, Bergson, and the Concept of Life
3. Bergson, Deleuze, and Difference
Part 2. Disturbing Differences: A New Kind of Feminism
4. Feminism, Materialism, and Freedom
5. The Future of Feminist Theory: Dreams for New Knowledges
6. Differences Disturbing Identity: Deleuze and Feminism
7. Irigaray and the Ontology of Sexual Difference
Part 3. Animals, Sex, and Art
8. Darwin and the Split between Natural and Sexual Selection
9. Sexual Differences as Sexual Selection: Irigarayan Reflections on Darwin
10. Art and the Animal
11. Living Art and the Art of Life: Women's Painting from the Western
Desert
Notes
Bibliography
Index