Plasticity : : The Promise of Explosion / / Catherine Malabou.

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• VerfasserIn: Malabou, Catherine,
• MitwirkendeR: James, Ian,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (344 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction --; Part One: Philosophical Heritages --; 1 An Eye on the Edge of Discourse: Speech, Vision, Idea --; 2 Following Generation: Biological and Poetic Cloning --; 3 Philosophy in Erection: Derrida’s Columns --; 4 The Possibility of the Worst: On Faith and Knowledge --; 5 Before and Above: Spinoza and Symbolic Necessity --; 6 Can We Relinquish the Transcendental? --; 7 Is Science the Subject of Philosophy? Miller, Badiou and Derrida Respond --; Part Two: Masks --; 8 The Crowd: Figuring the Democracy to Come --; 9 Life and Prison --; 10 Odysseus’s Changed Soul: A Contemporary Reading of the Myth of Er --; 11 Epigenesis of the Text: New Paths in Biology and Hermeneutics --; 12 Reading Lázló Földényi’s ‘Dostoyevsky Reads Hegel in Siberia and Bursts into Tears’ --; 13 Philosophy and the Outside: Foucault and Decolonial Thinking --; Part Three: Psyches, Brains, Cells --; 14 The Brain of History, or, The Mentality of the Anthropocene --; 15 Whither Materialism? Althusser/Darwin --; 16 Philosophy and Anarchism: Alternative or Dilemma? --; 17 One Life Only: Biological Resistance, Political Resistance --; 18 Philosophers, Biologists: Some More Effort if You Wish to Become Revolutionaries! --; 19 How is Subjectivity Undergoing Deconstruction Today? Philosophy, Auto-Hetero-Affection and Neurobiological Emotion --; 20 Floating Signifiers Revisited: Poststructuralism Meets Neurolinguistics --; Part Four: Destructive Forms --; 21 Is Retreat a Metaphor? --; 22 Plasticity and Elasticity in Freud’s Beyond the Pleasure Principle --; 23 Are There Still Traces? Memory and the Obsolescence of the Paradigm of Inscription --; 24 Phantom Limbs and Plasticity: Merleau-Ponty and Current Neurobiology --; 25 The Example of Plasticity --; Works Cited --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781474462143; 9783110993899; 9783110994810; 9783110992762; 9783110992755; 9783110780390
• DOI: 10.1515/9781474462143
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Catherine Malabou.

A career-spanning collection of published and unpublished writings from one of today's leading French philosophers 25 essays showcase Malabou’s rounded philosophical project: 17 previously published and 8 brand newDemonstrates the interdisciplinary range and expansive applicative scope of her concept of plasticity Presents a full portrait of Malabou’s philosophy which shows her project as a coherent conceptual problem rather than a collection of disparate topics and themesIncludes a critical introduction by Malabou expert Ian JamesCatherine Malabou is one of the foremost, most innovative intelligences working in contemporary French philosophy today. Her work articulates a coherent conceptualisation of ‘plasticity’ by merging recent neurobiology and medicinal sciences with the history of philosophy and political theory.Across the essays gathered in Plasticity: The Promise of Explosion, Malabou carves a philosophical space between structuralism, deconstruction, cognitive psychology, psychoanalysis and speculative realism. By demonstrating the plastic transformability at the heart of these disciplines, a change that always promises future explosion, Malabou, as a female philosopher, also articulates the need to ‘change difference’ within patriarchal concepts of tradition itself.The collection is divided into four thematic parts, each of which showcases a major aspect of Malabou’s conceptualisation of plasticity. In his introduction, Ian James situates Malabou’s work within contemporary philosophy and navigates the contours of her unique work.