Time Travels

“Grosz offers an alternative to the socially constructed identity and sexualities by calling for an examination of how inhuman forces constitute them.” - Catherine Villanueva Gardner, American Philosophical Association Newsletter

“In its drive towards the future – a future seen as radically open and indeterminable – Grosz’s work provides a positive and invigorating vision of the role of cultural theory. It also offers a compelling re-envisioning of the present, and the present’s relationship to the future. The structure of the book, as a collection of connected but disparate essays, means that it does not, and does not attempt to, develop a totalising theory of temporality. Rather, it opens up new directions both in how we think about theory and the consequences – and futures – of cultural and feminist theory.” - Karen Hall, Limina

"[Grosz's] promotion of a reconceived biology is pertinent not only for feminist theory but also for cultural theory and literary theory more generally." - Randall Knoper, College Literature

“Elizabeth Grosz has long been recognized as one of the most astute commentators on feminism, continental philosophy, and cultural studies. Renowned for her clarity and rigor, she has a well-deserved reputation as a major feminist philosopher. In Time Travels Grosz manages to surpass her already magisterial standards and produce a tour de force of originality. Here, Grosz finds her own voice and argues for a new theory of time and life. This is an exciting, inspired, and inspiring book.” - Claire Colebrook, author of Gilles Deleuze

“What does it mean to introduce time into thought? Bergson formulated this question in the nineteenth century; Deleuze took it up again in postwar France. In her philosophical travels through legal studies, new technologies, and debates in Darwinism, Elizabeth Grosz brilliantly pursues its punch for us today: What would it mean for feminism to include an evolutionary materialism of time, and what would it mean for it to become an ineliminable part of a ‘new Bergsonism’ of the twenty-first century?” - John Rajchman, author of The Deleuze Connections