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A career-spanning collection of published and unpublished writings from one of today's leading French philosophers 25 essays showcase Malabou’s rounded philosophical project: 17 previously published and 8 brand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

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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (344 p.)
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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