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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