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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
• 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.)

A career-spanning collection of published and unpublished writings from one of today's leading French philosophers 25 essays showcase Malabou’s rounded philosophical project: 17 previously published and 8 brand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.

Table of Contents

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