Nathan Widder
Biographic Data
| ID | 385373 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nathan Widder |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nathan |
| FAMILY NAME | Widder |
| SIGNATURE | WIDDER N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Royal Holloway University of London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Deleuze and Guattari’s ‘War Machine’ as a Critique of Hegel’s Political Philosophy
This paper elaborates Deleuze and Guattari’s ‘war machine’ in relation to key theses in Hegel’s political philosophy, with the aim of showing how it illuminates the conditions under which politics and political institutions as Hegel understands them both emerge and are compromised. After first introducing the idea of the war machine and its appropriation by discussing it in relation to Carl Schmitt’s theory of partisan warfare, it examines both t…
Kantian courage
Political Theory After Deleuze
1. Introduction: The Ontological Turn in Political Thought 2. Identity and Difference 3. Desire and Subjectivity 4. Time and Novelty: The Nature of an Event 5. The Many Levels of Politics: Deterritorialization, the War Machine, Micropolitics and the State Further Reading Index.
A semblance of identity
This article challenges the idea that individual and collective agency require centred, fixed identities to be efficacious and meaningful. In post-foundational political thought, this idea frequently underpins an understanding of the subject as something temporarily consolidated through constitutive exclusions and a claim that political and ethical thought must negotiate the necessity for and inevitable failure of these exclusions. Against this t…
Time and Pluralism
From Negation to Disjunction in a World of Simulacra
This paper will articulate an underappreciated side of the psychoanalytical Deleuze: his relation to Melanie Klein, particularly as it appears in The Logic of Sense. Deleuze's engagement with Klein largely follows his familiar strategy of re-reading a thinker off of a twist in one or two of that thinker's key concepts. With Klein, this twist involves re-reading her story of psychic development on the basis of disjunction rather than negation, so …
Reflections on Time and Politics
"Explores the nature of time and its implications for questions of politics, ethics, and the self. Shows how a conception of time that breaks with common sense notions of chronological order can help us rethink the understandings of identity, difference, power, resistance, and overcoming"--Provided by publisher.
Reflections on Time and Politics
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…
Foucault and the Event
What is the sense of an event? In this piece I would like to explore this question by juxtaposing Foucault's presentations of two types of event: the discursive event and the revolutionary event. In both cases, the event fundamentally involves difference and the way differences are brought together or synthesized. The issue of difference, in turn, underpins the event's relations with truth, subjectivity, power, politics, and history. Foucault (19…
Foucault and Power Revisited
This article takes issue with interpretations of Foucault’s thought that understand power and resistance as forces working in opposition to one another to fix and dissolve or construct and deconstruct social identities. Starting from the theme of dispersion presented in The Archaeology of Knowledge, it maintains that, for Foucault, power works only in a dispersive manner and that identities are not so much substantialities produced by power as si…
The Relevance of Nietzsche to Democratic Theory
The rights of Simulacra
What's Lacking in the Lack
In Search of Lost Becomings
Singularly Aristotle
Theory & Event - Volume 1, Issue 3, 1997
Bestimmung der Genauigkeit und der Fehlerquellen des Rippsteinschen Verfahrens zur Messung der Antetorsion des coxalen Femurendes
Foucault and Power Revisited
This article takes issue with interpretations of Foucault’s thought that understand power and resistance as forces working in opposition to one another to fix and dissolve or construct and deconstruct social identities. Starting from the theme of dispersion presented in The Archaeology of Knowledge, it maintains that, for Foucault, power works only in a dispersive manner and that identities are not so much substantialities produced by power as si…
What's Lacking in the Lack
A semblance of identity
This article challenges the idea that individual and collective agency require centred, fixed identities to be efficacious and meaningful. In post-foundational political thought, this idea frequently underpins an understanding of the subject as something temporarily consolidated through constitutive exclusions and a claim that political and ethical thought must negotiate the necessity for and inevitable failure of these exclusions. Against this t…
Foucault and the Event
What is the sense of an event? In this piece I would like to explore this question by juxtaposing Foucault's presentations of two types of event: the discursive event and the revolutionary event. In both cases, the event fundamentally involves difference and the way differences are brought together or synthesized. The issue of difference, in turn, underpins the event's relations with truth, subjectivity, power, politics, and history. Foucault (19…
Bestimmung der Genauigkeit und der Fehlerquellen des Rippsteinschen Verfahrens zur Messung der Antetorsion des coxalen Femurendes
Singularly Aristotle
Theory & Event - Volume 1, Issue 3, 1997
In Search of Lost Becomings
What's Lacking in the Lack
The rights of Simulacra
Foucault and Power Revisited
This article takes issue with interpretations of Foucault’s thought that understand power and resistance as forces working in opposition to one another to fix and dissolve or construct and deconstruct social identities. Starting from the theme of dispersion presented in The Archaeology of Knowledge, it maintains that, for Foucault, power works only in a dispersive manner and that identities are not so much substantialities produced by power as si…
The Relevance of Nietzsche to Democratic Theory
Reflections on Time and Politics
"Explores the nature of time and its implications for questions of politics, ethics, and the self. Shows how a conception of time that breaks with common sense notions of chronological order can help us rethink the understandings of identity, difference, power, resistance, and overcoming"--Provided by publisher.
Reflections on Time and Politics
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…
Foucault and the Event
What is the sense of an event? In this piece I would like to explore this question by juxtaposing Foucault's presentations of two types of event: the discursive event and the revolutionary event. In both cases, the event fundamentally involves difference and the way differences are brought together or synthesized. The issue of difference, in turn, underpins the event's relations with truth, subjectivity, power, politics, and history. Foucault (19…
From Negation to Disjunction in a World of Simulacra
This paper will articulate an underappreciated side of the psychoanalytical Deleuze: his relation to Melanie Klein, particularly as it appears in The Logic of Sense. Deleuze's engagement with Klein largely follows his familiar strategy of re-reading a thinker off of a twist in one or two of that thinker's key concepts. With Klein, this twist involves re-reading her story of psychic development on the basis of disjunction rather than negation, so …
Time and Pluralism
Political Theory After Deleuze
1. Introduction: The Ontological Turn in Political Thought 2. Identity and Difference 3. Desire and Subjectivity 4. Time and Novelty: The Nature of an Event 5. The Many Levels of Politics: Deterritorialization, the War Machine, Micropolitics and the State Further Reading Index.
A semblance of identity
This article challenges the idea that individual and collective agency require centred, fixed identities to be efficacious and meaningful. In post-foundational political thought, this idea frequently underpins an understanding of the subject as something temporarily consolidated through constitutive exclusions and a claim that political and ethical thought must negotiate the necessity for and inevitable failure of these exclusions. Against this t…
Kantian courage
Deleuze and Guattari’s ‘War Machine’ as a Critique of Hegel’s Political Philosophy
This paper elaborates Deleuze and Guattari’s ‘war machine’ in relation to key theses in Hegel’s political philosophy, with the aim of showing how it illuminates the conditions under which politics and political institutions as Hegel understands them both emerge and are compromised. After first introducing the idea of the war machine and its appropriation by discussing it in relation to Carl Schmitt’s theory of partisan warfare, it examines both t…
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