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Reflections on Time and Politics / Nathan Widder.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: University Park, PA : Penn State University Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2008Description: 1 online resource (224 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780271056593
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 115 22
LOC classification:
  • BD638 .W53 2008eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The ''Vulgar'' Aristotle -- 2. Point, Line, Curve -- 3. 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 to Truth -- 15. Discipline and Normalization -- 16. Time, Guilt, and Overcoming -- 17. Micropolitics ''Beneath'' Identity -- 18. The Care of the Self and Politics -- References -- Index
Summary: Recent philosophical debates have moved beyond proclamations of the "death of philosophy" and the "death of the subject" to consider more positively how philosophy can be practiced and the human self can be conceptualized today. Inspired by the writings of Nietzsche, Bergson, and Deleuze, rapid changes related to globalization, and advances in evolutionary biology and neuroscience, these debates have generated a renewed focus on time as an active force of change and novelty. Rejecting simple linear models of time, these strands of thought have provided creative alternatives to a traditional reliance on fixed boundaries and stable identities that has proven unable to grapple with the intense speeds and complexities of contemporary life. In this book, Nathan Widder contributes to these debates, but also goes significantly beyond them. Holding that current writings remain too focused on time's movement, he examines more fundamentally time's structure and its structural ungrounding, releasing time completely from its traditional subordination to movement and space. Doing this enables him to reformulate entirely the terms through which time and change are understood, leading to a radical alteration of our understandings of power, resistance, language, and the unconscious, and taking post-identity political philosophy and ethics in a new direction.Eighteen independent but interlinked reflections engage with ancient philosophy, mathematical theory, dialectics, psychoanalysis, archaeology, and genealogy. The book's broad coverage and novel rereadings of key figures-including Aristotle, Bergson, Nietzsche, Foucault, and Deleuze-make this a unique rethinking of the nature of pluralism, multiplicity, and politics.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The ''Vulgar'' Aristotle -- 2. Point, Line, Curve -- 3. 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 to Truth -- 15. Discipline and Normalization -- 16. Time, Guilt, and Overcoming -- 17. Micropolitics ''Beneath'' Identity -- 18. The Care of the Self and Politics -- References -- Index

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Recent philosophical debates have moved beyond proclamations of the "death of philosophy" and the "death of the subject" to consider more positively how philosophy can be practiced and the human self can be conceptualized today. Inspired by the writings of Nietzsche, Bergson, and Deleuze, rapid changes related to globalization, and advances in evolutionary biology and neuroscience, these debates have generated a renewed focus on time as an active force of change and novelty. Rejecting simple linear models of time, these strands of thought have provided creative alternatives to a traditional reliance on fixed boundaries and stable identities that has proven unable to grapple with the intense speeds and complexities of contemporary life. In this book, Nathan Widder contributes to these debates, but also goes significantly beyond them. Holding that current writings remain too focused on time's movement, he examines more fundamentally time's structure and its structural ungrounding, releasing time completely from its traditional subordination to movement and space. Doing this enables him to reformulate entirely the terms through which time and change are understood, leading to a radical alteration of our understandings of power, resistance, language, and the unconscious, and taking post-identity political philosophy and ethics in a new direction.Eighteen independent but interlinked reflections engage with ancient philosophy, mathematical theory, dialectics, psychoanalysis, archaeology, and genealogy. The book's broad coverage and novel rereadings of key figures-including Aristotle, Bergson, Nietzsche, Foucault, and Deleuze-make this a unique rethinking of the nature of pluralism, multiplicity, and politics.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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