Elizabeth Grosz
Biographic Data
| ID | 3583979 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth Grosz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth |
| FAMILY NAME | Grosz |
| SIGNATURE | GROSZ E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Duke University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 44 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1023 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 44 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
Creative Evolution
Creative Evolution
Immaterial Matters, or the Unconscious of Materialism: A Conversation with Elizabeth Grosz
In this conversation, which took place across several months in the year 2021, Elizabeth Grosz describes her position with respect to “new materialism” and “the material turn”: while she emphasizes the necessity of materialist thought in the current situation marked by a global pandemic, she also stresses the equal importance of what she calls “the incorporeal”: an excess in and of matter, materiality’s heterogeneous virtuality, differentiality a…
Sexual Subversions: Three French Feminists
Sexual Subversions introduces the works of three well known, if not well-read, French feminists: Julia Kristeva, Luce Irigaray and Micele Le Doeuff. It provides a map of an area where there are few detailed discussion of the achievements of these difficult, yet immensely rewarding, writers. In doing so, this overview raises issues of general relevance to feminist research: it participates in debates around the nature of feminist theory, the relat…
Sexual Subversions
Intolerable Ambiguity: Freaks as/at the Limit
Labors of Love
Sexual Difference and the Problem of Essentialism
Space, Time, and Perversion: Essays on the Politics of Bodies
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 investigates the work of Michel Foucault, Teresa de Lauretis, Gilles Deleuze, Judith Butler and Alphonso Lingi, considering their work by examining the ways in which the functioning of bodies transfor…
The Incorporeal: Ontology, Ethics, and the Limits of Materialism
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 materialists, another view has acknowledged that no forms of materialism can be completely self-inclusive—space, time, the void, and sense are the incorporeal conditions of all that is corporeal or mater…
Onto-Ethics and Difference: An Interview with Elizabeth Grosz
Elizabeth Grosz is the author of ten books and an influential contributor to the elaboration of the philosophy of difference and feminist thinking on sexual difference. Rebecca Hill, one of the co-editors of this special issue, invited Grosz to speak further about some central concepts and themes in her two most recent books, Becoming Undone and The Incorporeal and the article 'Irigaray, the Untimely, and the Constitution of an Onto-Ethics'. The …
Irigaray, The Untimely, and The Constitution of An Onto-Ethics
This article elaborates an account of ontology that is developed in the writings of Luce Irigaray. I argue that she strives for an ontology of sexual difference rather than one based on any conception of human identity. Like Nietzsche she does this by working with the Pre-Socratic philosophers and other non-Platonic theorists to address not only the materiality of the world but also its incorporeal qualities and capacities
An Interview with Elizabeth Grosz: Geopower, Inhumanism and the Biopolitical
This article is an interview with Elizabeth Grosz by Kathryn Yusoff and Nigel Clark. It primarily addresses Grosz's approaches to 'geopower', and the discussion encompasses an exploration of her ideas on biopolitics, inhuman forces and material experimentation. Grosz describes geopower as a force that subtends the possibility of politics. The interview is accompanied by a brief contextualizing introduction examining the themes of geophilosophy an…
All Too Human
Research Article| December 01 2016 All Too Human: A Conversation with Elizabeth Grosz Elizabeth Grosz; Elizabeth Grosz Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Simone Stirner Simone Stirner Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Qui Parle (2016) 25 (1-2): 17–33. https://doi.org/10.5250/quiparle.25.1-2.0017 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Elizab…
Féminisme, matérialisme et liberté
Depuis plusieurs annes, les nouveaux matrialismes , inspirs notamment par l'anthropologie et l'histoire des sciences, pullulent dans les penses fministes et queer. Ce n'est pas pour autant que leurs argumentations convergent : celle d'Elizabeth Grosz, situe comme une ontologie matrialiste , tente de rintroduire dans une pense fministe plutt intresse par la faon dont les corps sont marqus culturellement, ce qu'il en est dans la nature des corps au…
Habit Today: Ravaisson, Bergson, Deleuze and Us
Habit has been understood, through the work of Descartes, Kant and Sartre, as a form of mechanism that arrests and inhibits consciousness, thought and freedom. This article addresses the concept of habit through a different tradition that links it instead to an ever-moving world. In a world of constant change, habits are not so much forms of fixity and repetition as they are modes of encounter materiality and life. Habit is the point of transitio…
The Nature of Sexual Difference: Irigaray and Darwin
This paper addresses the question of sexual difference as a pre-eminent question not only of cultural and social but also of biological relations. If sexual difference is a biological force then it must pervade the world of animals as much as the cultural world of humans. Charles Darwin's work may provide a framework from which to understand Luce Irigaray's central conception of sexual difference. This paper explores the possible relations betwee…
Geopower: A Panel on Elizabeth Grosz's Chaos, Territory, Art: Deleuze and the Framing of the Earth
Rather than understand art as cultural accomplishment, Elizabeth Grosz argues that it is born from the intensities of chaos and disruptive forms of sexual selection-a corporeality that vibrates to the hum of the universe. Grosz contends that it is precisely this excessive, nonproductive expenditure of sexual attraction that is the condition for art's work. This intimate corporeality, composed of nonhuman forces, is what draws and transforms the c…
Becoming Undone: Darwinian Reflections on Life, Politics, and Art
This book is an attempt to address a series of imperceptible movements, modes of becoming, forms of change, and evolutionary transformations that make up natural, cultural, and political life.I have called these movements ''becomings,'' but what it is that becomes, and what it becomes, are less clear and less interesting than the movement itself.Movement does not attach to a stable thing, putting it in motion; rather, movement preexists the thing…
Feminism, Materialism, and Freedom
The Untimeliness of Feminist Theory
Feminist theory has an auspicious future. It is a future bound up with change. It is no doubt linked in various ways to feminist struggles and feminist knowledges produced by previous struggles and
The Practice of Feminist Theory
This paper addresses the question of what a concept is and how concepts are relevant to the work of feminist politics. It argues, using the work of Deleuze and Guattari, that the creation of concepts is the production of an event that addresses the unpredictability of events. A concept provides an event with an incorporeal lining, a virtual force that enables the event to give way to new and unpredictable effects. Feminist theory has produced a p…
Bergson, Deleuze and the Becoming of Unbecoming
Time Travels: Feminism, Nature, Power
Essays on the relationship between temporatlity and feminism that focus on the political and philosophical ramifications of being future oriented
Derrida and Feminism: A Remembrance
elizabeth grosz teaches in the Women's and Gender Studies Department at Rutgers University. She is the author most recently of two books exploring the political implications of our received conceptions of time:The Nick of Time. Politics, Evolution, and the Untimely (Duke University Press, 2004); and Time Travels. Feminism, Nature, Power(Duke University Press, 2005
Time Travels: Feminism, Nature, Power
Essays on the relationship between temporatlity and feminism that focus on the political and philosophical ramifications of being future oriented
The Nick of Time: Politics, Evolution, and the Untimely
This book is an exploration of how the biological prefigures and makes possible the various permutations of life that constitute natural, social, and cultural existence.Its goals are interdisciplinary: to explore a series of questions about the movement of time that overlap with and are the shared concern of a number of di√erent disciplines: philosophy, politics, history, the social and natural sciences, cultural studies, feminist, antiracist, an…
Becoming Undone: Darwinian Reflections on Life, Politics, and Art
This book is an attempt to address a series of imperceptible movements, modes of becoming, forms of change, and evolutionary transformations that make up natural, cultural, and political life.I have called these movements ''becomings,'' but what it is that becomes, and what it becomes, are less clear and less interesting than the movement itself.Movement does not attach to a stable thing, putting it in motion; rather, movement preexists the thing…
Notes towards a corporeal feminism
1987). Notes towards a corporeal feminism. Australian Feminist Studies: Vol. 2, Feminism and the Body, pp. 1-16
A thousand tiny sexes: Feminism and rhizomatics
Geopower: A Panel on Elizabeth Grosz's Chaos, Territory, Art: Deleuze and the Framing of the Earth
Rather than understand art as cultural accomplishment, Elizabeth Grosz argues that it is born from the intensities of chaos and disruptive forms of sexual selection-a corporeality that vibrates to the hum of the universe. Grosz contends that it is precisely this excessive, nonproductive expenditure of sexual attraction that is the condition for art's work. This intimate corporeality, composed of nonhuman forces, is what draws and transforms the c…
An Interview with Elizabeth Grosz: Geopower, Inhumanism and the Biopolitical
This article is an interview with Elizabeth Grosz by Kathryn Yusoff and Nigel Clark. It primarily addresses Grosz's approaches to 'geopower', and the discussion encompasses an exploration of her ideas on biopolitics, inhuman forces and material experimentation. Grosz describes geopower as a force that subtends the possibility of politics. The interview is accompanied by a brief contextualizing introduction examining the themes of geophilosophy an…
Bergson, Deleuze and the Becoming of Unbecoming
Darwin and Feminism: Preliminary Investigations for a Possible Alliance
1999). Darwin and Feminism: Preliminary Investigations for a Possible Alliance. Australian Feminist Studies: Vol. 14, No. 29, pp. 31-45
Habit Today: Ravaisson, Bergson, Deleuze and Us
Habit has been understood, through the work of Descartes, Kant and Sartre, as a form of mechanism that arrests and inhibits consciousness, thought and freedom. This article addresses the concept of habit through a different tradition that links it instead to an ever-moving world. In a world of constant change, habits are not so much forms of fixity and repetition as they are modes of encounter materiality and life. Habit is the point of transitio…
Feminist theory and the challenge to knowledges
A politics of imperceptibility: A response to ‘Anti-racism, multiculturalism and the ethics of identification’
The Untimeliness of Feminist Theory
Feminist theory has an auspicious future. It is a future bound up with change. It is no doubt linked in various ways to feminist struggles and feminist knowledges produced by previous struggles and
The Nature of Sexual Difference: Irigaray and Darwin
This paper addresses the question of sexual difference as a pre-eminent question not only of cultural and social but also of biological relations. If sexual difference is a biological force then it must pervade the world of animals as much as the cultural world of humans. Charles Darwin's work may provide a framework from which to understand Luce Irigaray's central conception of sexual difference. This paper explores the possible relations betwee…
Freaks
The Practice of Feminist Theory
This paper addresses the question of what a concept is and how concepts are relevant to the work of feminist politics. It argues, using the work of Deleuze and Guattari, that the creation of concepts is the production of an event that addresses the unpredictability of events. A concept provides an event with an incorporeal lining, a virtual force that enables the event to give way to new and unpredictable effects. Feminist theory has produced a p…
Merleau-Ponty and Irigaray in the Flesh
Derrida and Feminism: A Remembrance
elizabeth grosz teaches in the Women's and Gender Studies Department at Rutgers University. She is the author most recently of two books exploring the political implications of our received conceptions of time:The Nick of Time. Politics, Evolution, and the Untimely (Duke University Press, 2004); and Time Travels. Feminism, Nature, Power(Duke University Press, 2005
Le corps et les connaissances. Le féminisme et la crise de la raison
Dans les deux premières parties, je résume brièvement les formes que prend la " crise de la raison " contemporaine, la façon dont elle s'est développée et les domaines théoriques où on la retrouve, tant dans les concepts traditionnels que dans la théorie féministe. Dans les deux parties suivantes, j'étudie deux concepts importants (et peut-être contradictoires) du corps : le corps en tant que surface sur laquelle s'inscrit le social et le corps e…
Feminist theory and the challenge to knowledges
Notes towards a corporeal feminism
1987). Notes towards a corporeal feminism. Australian Feminist Studies: Vol. 2, Feminism and the Body, pp. 1-16
Jacques Lacan: A feminist introduction
Freaks
A thousand tiny sexes: Feminism and rhizomatics
Merleau-Ponty and Irigaray in the Flesh
Volatile Bodies: Toward a Corporeal Feminism
"The location of the author’s investigations, the body itself rather than the sphere of subjective representations of self and of function in cultures, is wholly new.... I believe this work will be a landmark in future feminist thinking." -Alphonso Lingis"This is a text of rare erudition and intellectual force. It will not only introduce feminists to an enriching set of theoretical perspectives but sets a high critical standard for feminist dialo…
The Labors of Love. Analyzing Perverse Desire: An Interrogation of Teresa de Lauretis's The Practice of Love
Space, time and Perversion: The politics of Bodies
AcknowledgmentsA Note on the TextIntroductionPART I: BODIES AND KNOWLEDGES1 Sexual signatures: feminism after the death of the author2 Bodies and knowledges: feminism and the crisis of reason3 Sexual difference and the problem of essentialism4 Ontology and equivocation: Derrida's politics of sexual differencePART II: SPACE, TIME AND BODIES5 Spaces, time and bodies6 Bodies-cities7 Women, Chora, dwelling8 Architecture from the outsidePART III: PERV…
Ontology and Equivocation: Derrida's Politics of Sexual Difference
Reevaluation feministe de certaines oeuvres de Derrida, a travers la question du statut ontologique de la difference entre les sexes, et celle de la politique deconstructionniste de Derrida. L'A. montre que la force de la theorie feministe reside dans l'incompletude de la question de la difference ontologique des sexes
The Social Body
Of Being-Two: Introduction
Of Being-Two: Introduction Pheng Cheah (bio) and Elizabeth Grosz (bio) The decade or so spanning the later 1970s to the mid-1980s witnessed the growing importance of “sexual difference” in Anglo-American academic discourse in the humanities and the “soft” social sciences. Both as an interpretive principle in textual criticism and literary theory and as a critical framework for the analysis of social and political structures and cultural formation…
Darwin and Feminism: Preliminary Investigations for a Possible Alliance
1999). Darwin and Feminism: Preliminary Investigations for a Possible Alliance. Australian Feminist Studies: Vol. 14, No. 29, pp. 31-45
Histories of a Feminist Future
Feminist Futures
A politics of imperceptibility: A response to ‘Anti-racism, multiculturalism and the ethics of identification’
Le corps et les connaissances. Le féminisme et la crise de la raison
Dans les deux premières parties, je résume brièvement les formes que prend la " crise de la raison " contemporaine, la façon dont elle s'est développée et les domaines théoriques où on la retrouve, tant dans les concepts traditionnels que dans la théorie féministe. Dans les deux parties suivantes, j'étudie deux concepts importants (et peut-être contradictoires) du corps : le corps en tant que surface sur laquelle s'inscrit le social et le corps e…
The Nick of Time: Politics, Evolution, and the Untimely
This book is an exploration of how the biological prefigures and makes possible the various permutations of life that constitute natural, social, and cultural existence.Its goals are interdisciplinary: to explore a series of questions about the movement of time that overlap with and are the shared concern of a number of di√erent disciplines: philosophy, politics, history, the social and natural sciences, cultural studies, feminist, antiracist, an…
The Nick of Time: Politics, Evolution, and the Untimely
Bergson, Deleuze and the Becoming of Unbecoming
Time Travels: Feminism, Nature, Power
Essays on the relationship between temporatlity and feminism that focus on the political and philosophical ramifications of being future oriented
Derrida and Feminism: A Remembrance
elizabeth grosz teaches in the Women's and Gender Studies Department at Rutgers University. She is the author most recently of two books exploring the political implications of our received conceptions of time:The Nick of Time. Politics, Evolution, and the Untimely (Duke University Press, 2004); and Time Travels. Feminism, Nature, Power(Duke University Press, 2005
Feminism, Materialism, and Freedom
The Untimeliness of Feminist Theory
Feminist theory has an auspicious future. It is a future bound up with change. It is no doubt linked in various ways to feminist struggles and feminist knowledges produced by previous struggles and
The Practice of Feminist Theory
This paper addresses the question of what a concept is and how concepts are relevant to the work of feminist politics. It argues, using the work of Deleuze and Guattari, that the creation of concepts is the production of an event that addresses the unpredictability of events. A concept provides an event with an incorporeal lining, a virtual force that enables the event to give way to new and unpredictable effects. Feminist theory has produced a p…
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