{"title":"Elizabeth Grosz","description":"\u003cp\u003eElizabeth Grosz's work explores the intersections of \u003cstrong\u003ephilosophy, art, and the body\u003c\/strong\u003e, inviting readers to reconsider concepts of space, time, and corporeality. Her writing navigates complex ideas with a focus on how biological and social forces shape identity and creativity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the dynamism of chaos to the subtlety of the incorporeal, Grosz’s texts offer profound reflections on perception and experience, appealing to those interested in \u003cem\u003ecritical theory, cultural studies, and the arts\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"chaos-territory-art-by-elizabeth-grosz-9780231145190","title":"Chaos, Territory, Art","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInstead 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. She approaches art as a form of erotic expression connecting sensory richness with primal desire, and in doing so, finds that the meaning of art comes from the intensities and sensations it inspires, not just its intention and aesthetic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBy regarding our most cultured human accomplishments as the result of the excessive, nonfunctional forces of sexual attraction and seduction, Grosz encourages us to see art as a kind of bodily enhancement or mode of sensation enabling living bodies to experience and transform the universe. Art can be understood as a way for bodies to augment themselves and their capacity for perception and affection—a way to grow and evolve through sensation. Through this framework, which knits together the theories of Charles Darwin, Henri Bergson, Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, and Jakob von Uexküll, we are able to grasp art's deep animal lineage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGrosz argues that art is not tied to the predictable and known but to new futures not contained in the present. Its animal affiliations ensure that art is intensely political and charged with the creation of new worlds and new forms of living. According to Grosz, art is the way in which life experiments with materiality, or nature, in order to bring about change.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46796133138668,"sku":"9780231145190","price":33.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/7508603482270.jpg?v=1757081414"},{"product_id":"the-incorporeal-by-elizabeth-grosz-9780231181631","title":"The Incorporeal","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePhilosophy 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 material.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eThe Incorporeal\u003c\/em\u003e, Elizabeth Grosz argues that the ideal is inherent in the material and the material in the ideal, and, by tracing its development over time, she makes the case that this same idea reasserts itself in different intellectual contexts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGrosz shows that not only are idealism and materialism inextricably linked but that this \"belonging together\" of the entirety of ideality and the entirety of materiality is not mediated or created by human consciousness. Instead, it is an ontological condition for the development of human consciousness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGrosz draws from Spinoza's material and ideal concept of substance, Nietzsche's \u003cem\u003eamor fati\u003c\/em\u003e, Deleuze and Guattari's plane of immanence, Simondon's preindividual, and Raymond Ruyer's self-survey or autoaffection to show that the world preexists the evolution of the human and that its material and incorporeal forces are the conditions for all forms of life, human and nonhuman alike.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA masterwork by an eminent theoretician, \u003cem\u003eThe Incorporeal\u003c\/em\u003e offers profound new insight into the mind-body problem.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48010627580140,"sku":"9780231181631","price":47.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780231181631-the-incorporeal.jpg?v=1785154890"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/collections\/elizabeth-grosz.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}