Plasticity
The Promise of Explosion
1st Edition
Published on 31. May 2022
344 pages
978-1-4744-6213-6 (ISBN)
Description
25 essays showcase Malabou's rounded philosophical project: 17 previously published and 8 brand new. In them, Malabou carves a philosophical space between structuralism, deconstruction, cognitive psychology, psychoanalysis and speculative realism.
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Content
- Intro
- 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 L.zl. F.ld.nyi'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
