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Elizabeth Grosz
Elizabeth Grosz argues that art-especially architecture, music, and painting-is born from the disruptive forces of sexual selection. She approaches art as a form of erotic expression connecting sensory richness with…
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Elizabeth Grosz (Professor)
A new resolution of the mind-body problem that reconciles materialism and idealism.
Winner, Gleebooks Prize for Cultural and Literary Criticism, NSW Premier’s Awards, 1995 Volatile Bodies is based on a risky wager: that all the effects of subjectivitiy, psychological depth and interiority…
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Always one to take on big questions, Grosz wants to shift the attention of feminist and other radical social theory to the natural sciences, in order to ask how the…
Focusing on the work of Darwin, Nietzsche and Bergson, showing its relevance to cultural and social theory influential theorist Elizabeth Grosz investigates the social and political implications of evolutionary change.
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The book explores various dissonances in thinking the relation between mind and body. It investigates issues that resist reduction to these binary terms.
Sexual Subversions introduces the works of three well known, if not well-read, French feminists: Julia Kristeva, Luce Irigaray and Micele Le Doeuff.
In this philosophical work, Elizabeth Grosz points the way toward a theory of becoming, to replace the prevailing ontologies of being in social, political, and biological discourse.
Grosz gives a critical overview of Lacan’s work from a feminist perspective. Discussing previous attempts to give a feminist reading of his work, she argues for women’s autonomy based on…
Grosz celebrates and re-situates the body in the space between feminism and philosophy, feminism and cultural analysis and feminism and critical thought. She investigates the work of Foucault, Deleuze, Butler…
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This volume explores the ontological, epistemic, and political implications of rethinking time as a dynamic and irreversible force.
Argues that art, especially architecture, music, and painting, is born from the disruptive forces of sexual selection. This book approaches art as a form of erotic expression that connects sensory…
Demonstrates that the sexually specific body is socially constructed: biology or nature is not opposed to or in conflict with culture. Examining the theories of Freud, Lacan, Merleau-Ponty, Foucault, Deleuze…
Prominent feminist theorist rethinks the relationship between evolution and the biological body through the study of three key figures–Darwin, Nietzsche, and Bergson.
Essays on the relationship between temporatlity and feminism that focus on the political and philosophical ramifications of being future oriented.
Elizabeth Grosz addresses three related concepts-life, politics, and art-by exploring the implications of Charles Darwins account of the evolution of species.
Through an examination of a variety of cultural forms and texts, Sexy Bodies investigates the ways in which sexual bodies, sexual practices and sexualities are produced.
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In this title, new and established scholars demonstrate the application of feminism in a range of academic disciplines including history, philosophy, politics, and sociology.
Feminist Time Against Nation Time offers a series of essays that explore the complex and oftentimes contradictory relationship between feminism and nationalism through a problematization of contemporality. The collection pursues…
Presents a collection of essays that provides a reassessment of the question of sexual difference, taking into account important shifts in feminist thought, post-humanist theories, and queer studies. This book…
Provides a reassessment of the question of sexual difference, taking into account shifts in feminist thought, post-humanist theories, and queer studies. This collection of essays offers insights into the question…
Continental feminist theory covers issues of equality and difference, identity and subjectivity. Modern thinkers such as Judith Butler present new perspectives on sex, gender, and sexual politics, yet these theories…
This is an extensive study of this American philosopher who is gaining an international reputation to augment his national one. The distinguished contributors to this volume address most of the…
