Plasticity: The Promise of Explosion

ISBN-13: 9781474462129 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 344 str.

Catherine Malabou;Ian James;Tyler Williams

Opis

A career-spanning collection of published and unpublished writings Catherine Malabou is one of the foremost, most innovative intelligences working in contemporary French philosophy today.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.

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Acknowledgements; Introduction by Ian James; Part One: Philosophical Heritages; An Eye on the Edge of Discourse: Speech, Vision, Idea; Following Generation: Biological and Poetic Cloning; Philosophy in Erection: Derrida’s Columns; The Possibility of the Worst: On Faith and Knowledge; Before and Above: Spinoza and Symbolic Necessity; Can We Relinquish the Transcendental?; Is Science the Subject of Philosophy? Miller, Badiou and Derrida Respond; Part Two: Masks; The Crowd: Figuring the Democracy to Come; Life and Prison; Odysseus’ Changed Soul: A Contemporary Reading of the Myth of Er; Epigenesis of the Text: New Paths in Biology and Hermeneutics; Reading Lázló Földényi’s Dostoyevsky Reads Hegel in Siberia and Bursts into Tears; Philosophy and the Outside: Foucault and Decolonial Thinking; Part Three: Psyches, Brains, Cells; The Brain of History, or, the Mentality of the Anthropocene; Whither Materialism? Althusser/Darwin; Philosophy and Anarchism: Alternative or Dilemma?; One Life Only: Biological Resistance, Political Resistance; Philosophers, Biologists: Some More Effort If You Wish to Become Revolutionaries!; How Is Subjectivity Undergoing Deconstruction Today? Philosophy, Auto-Hetero-Affection and Neurobiological Emotion; Floating Signifiers Revisited: Poststructuralism Meets Neurolinguistics; Part Four: Destructive Forms; Is Retreat a Metaphor?; Plasticity and Elasticity in Freud’s Beyond the Pleasure Principle; Are There Still Traces? Memory and the Obsolescence of the Paradigm of Inscription; Phantom Limbs and Plasticity: Merleau-Ponty and Current Neurobiology; The Example of Plasticity: An Interview with Catherine Malabou.