Reflections on time and politics / Nathan Widder.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Widder, Nathan, 1970- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Time.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 208 p. )

Place of Publication:

University Park, Pennsylvania : The 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:

Immanence and Sense

- 4. A Discontinuous Bergsonism

- 5. Disguised Platonisms

- 6. Syntheses of Difference and Contradiction

- 7. Abstract and Concrete Differences: Lacan and Irigaray

- 8. Repetition and the Three Syntheses of Time

- 9. Incorporeal Surfaces

- 10. The Logic of (Non)Sense

- 11. Regularities of Dispersion

- 12. The Genesis of the Surface I: The Theory of Drives

- 13. The Genesis of the Surface II: Negation and Disjunction

- 14. Crisis Time: Nihilism and the Will of Truth

- 15. Discipline and Normalization

- 16. Time, Guilt, and Overcoming

- 17. Micropolitics "Beneath" Identity

- 18. The Care of the Self and Politics.

Notes:

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

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780271056593

0271056592

OCLC:

1269268923