Reflections on Time and Politics
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Reflections on Time and Politics

  1. 224 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
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Reflections on Time and Politics

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Copyright
  3. Contents
  4. Preface and Acknowledgments
  5. Introduction
  6. 1. The ‘‘Vulgar’’ Aristotle
  7. 2. Point, Line, Curve
  8. 3. Immanence and Sense
  9. 4. A Discontinuous Bergsonism
  10. 5. Disguised Platonisms
  11. 6. Syntheses of Difference and Contradiction
  12. 7. Abstract and Concrete Differences: Lacan and Irigaray
  13. 8. Repetition and the Three Syntheses of Time
  14. 9. Incorporeal Surfaces
  15. 10. The Logic of (Non)Sense
  16. 11. Regularities of Dispersion
  17. 12. The Genesis of the Surface I: The Theor y of Drives
  18. 13. The Genesis of the Surface II: Negation and Disjunction
  19. 14. Crisis Time: Nihilism and the Will to Truth
  20. 15. Discipline and Normalization
  21. 16. Time, Guilt, and Overcoming
  22. 17. Micropolitics ‘‘Beneath’’ Identity
  23. References
  24. Index
  25. Back Cover