Reflections on time and politics / Nathan Widder.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Widder, Nathan, 1970-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Time.

Physical Description:

xi, 208 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2008]

Summary:

"Explores the nature of time and its implications for questions of politics, ethics, and the self. Shows how a conception of time that breaks with common sense notions of chronological order can help us rethink the understandings of identity, difference, power, resistance, and overcoming"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1 The "Vulgar" Aristotle 13

2 Point, Line, Curve 22

3 Immanence and Sense 34

4 A Discontinuous Bergsonism 40

5 Disguised Platonisms 50

6 Syntheses of Difference and Contradiction 63

7 Abstract and Concrete Differences: Lacan and Irigaray 76

8 Repetition and the Three Syntheses of Time 86

9 Incorporeal Surfaces 100

10 The Logic of (Non)Sense 108

11 Regularities of Dispersion 115

12 The Genesis of the Surface I: The Theory of Drives 121

13 The Genesis of the Surface II: Negation and Disjunction 130

14 Crisis Time: Nihilism and the Will to Truth 143

15 Discipline and Normalization 157

16 Time, Guilt, and Overcoming 165

17 Micropolitics "Beneath" Identity 177

18 The Care of the Self and Politics 184.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [189]-198) and index.

ISBN:

9780271033945

0271033940

OCLC:

212410041