Elizabeth Grosz

Book · January 1, 2022 First published in French in 1907, Henri Bergson’s L’évolution créatrice is a scintillating and radical work by one of the great French philosophers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This outstanding new translation, the first for over a hundred y ... Full text Cite

Volatile bodies

Book · January 1, 2020 Volatile Bodies is based on a risky wager: that all the effects of subjectivity, psychological depth and inferiority can be refigured in terms of bodies and surfaces. It uses, transforms and subverts the work of a number of distinguished male theorists of ... Full text Cite

The nick of time: Politics, evolution and the untimely

Book · January 1, 2020 ‘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 biological induces the cultural and, further, how our immersion in time affects the materi ... Full text Cite

Space, time and perversion: Essays on the politics of bodies

Book · January 1, 2018 Exploring the fields of architecture, philosophy, and queer theory, Grosz shows how feminism and cultural analysis have conceptually stripped bodies of their specificity, their corporeality, and the vestigal traces of their production as bodies. She invest ... Full text Cite

The Incorporeal: Ontology, Ethics, and the Limits of Materialism

Book · March 14, 2017 Philosophy has inherited a powerful impulse to embrace either dualism or a reductive monism―either a radical separation of mind and body or the reduction of mind to body. But from its origins in the writings of the Stoics, the first thoroughgoing materiali ... Link to item Cite

Chaos, Territory, Art

Book · August 13, 2013 Instead of treating art as a unique creation that requires reason and refined taste to appreciate, Elizabeth Grosz argues that art-especially architecture, music, and painting-is born from the disruptive forces of sexual selection. ... Cite

Sexy Bodies: The Strange Carnalities of Feminism

Book · February 1, 2013 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. ... Cite

Becoming Undone

Book · September 12, 2011 In Becoming Undone, Elizabeth Grosz addresses three related concepts—life, politics, and art—by exploring the implications of Charles Darwin’s account of the evolution of species. ... Cite

Conversations

Book · January 1, 2008 Conversations is an important collection of interviews in which Luce Irigaray discusses the full range of her work and ideas with leading academics in the fields of Continental Philosophy, Feminist Theory and Critical Theory. Covering all the key topics th ... Cite

Time Travels

Book · June 1, 2005 Together these essays demonstrate the broad scope and applicability of Grosz’s thinking about time as an undertheorized but uniquely productive force. ... Cite

The Nick of Time

Book · December 6, 2004 Prominent feminist theorist rethinks the relationship between evolution and the biological body through the study of three key figures--Darwin, Nietzsche, and Bergson. Superbly written, deftly executed, and wonderfully instructive. ... Cite

Jacques Lacan: a feminist introduction

Book · September 11, 2002 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 an indifference to the Lacanian phallus. ... Cite

Architecture from the Outside

Book · June 22, 2001 In these essays, philosopher Elizabeth Grosz explores the ways in which two disciplines that are fundamentally outside each another--architecture and philosophy--can meet in a third space to interact free of their internal constraints. ... Cite

Becomings. Explorations in Time, Memory and Futures

Book · 1999 This volume explores the ontological, epistemic, and political implications of rethinking time as a dynamic and irreversible force. ... Cite

Space, Time, and Perversion

Book · 1995 She investigates the work of Michael Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, Judith Butler and Alphonso Lingis, examining the ways in which the functioning of bodies transforms understandings of space. ... Cite

Volatile Bodies. Toward a Corporeal Feminism

Book · 1994 Volatile Bodies is based on a risky wager: that all the effects of subjectivitiy, psychological depth and interiority can be refigured in terms of bodies and surfaces. It uses, transforms and subverts the work of a number of distinguished male theorists of ... Cite

Elizabeth Grosz

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