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

2020/03/07 by Elizabeth Grosz
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices #Humanities and Social Sciences #Modernist Literature and Criticism

paper · doi:10.1215/9780822386032

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Abstract

Darwinian matters : life, force and change -- Biological difference -- The evolution of sex and race -- Nietzsche's Darwin -- History and the untimely -- The eternal return and the overman -- Bergsonian differences -- The philosophy of life -- Intuition and the virtual -- The future

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