Grosz Becoming Undone

Darwinian Reflections on Life, Politics, and Art
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9443-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 276 Seiten

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Grosz, Elizabeth

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Evolutionsbiologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.