{"product_id":"becoming-undone-darwinian-reflections-on-life-politics-and-art-paperback","title":"Becoming Undone: Darwinian Reflections on Life, Politics, and Art - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eElizabeth Grosz\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eBecoming Undone\u003c\/i\u003e, Elizabeth Grosz addresses three related concepts--life, politics, and art--by exploring the implications of Charles Darwin's account of the evolution of species. Challenging characterizations of Darwin's work as a form of genetic determinism, Grosz shows that his writing reveals an insistence on the difference between natural selection and sexual selection, the principles that regulate survival and attractiveness, respectively. Sexual selection complicates natural selection by introducing aesthetic factors and the expression of individual will, desire, or pleasure. Grosz explores how Darwin's theory of sexual selection transforms philosophy, our understanding of humanity in its male and female forms, our ideas of political relations, and our concepts of art. Connecting the naturalist's work to the writings of Bergson, Deleuze, and Irigaray, she outlines a postmodern Darwinism that understands all of life as forms of competing and coordinating modes of openness. Although feminists have been suspicious of the concepts of nature and biology central to Darwin's work, Grosz proposes that his writings are a rich resource for developing a more politicized, radical, and far-reaching feminist understanding of matter, nature, biology, time, and becoming.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eElizabeth Grosz is Professor of Women's Studies and Gender Studies at Rutgers University. She is the author of several books, including \u003ci\u003eChaos, Territory, Art: Deleuze and the Framing of the Earth\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as \u003ci\u003eThe Nick of Time: Politics, Evolution, and the Untimely\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTime Travels: Feminism, Nature, Power\u003c\/i\u003e, both also published by Duke University Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 280\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.67 x 9.15 x 5.96 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 11, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42130231591047,"sku":"9780822350712","price":56.63,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/3c174c55cab4b413d5c6e7b85072c71f.webp?v=1732609413","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/becoming-undone-darwinian-reflections-on-life-politics-and-art-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}