Catherine Malabou: 9 books
Plasticity at the Dusk of Writing
Dialectic, Destruction, Deconstruction
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2009
A former student and collaborator of Jacques Derrida, Catherine Malabou has generated worldwide acclaim for her progressive rethinking of postmodern, Derridean critique. Building on her notion of plasticity, a term she originally borrowed from Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit and adapted to a reading...
Self and Emotional Life
Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and Neuroscience
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
Adrian Johnston and Catherine Malabou defy theoretical humanities' deeply-entrenched resistance to engagements with the life sciences. Rather than treat biology and its branches as hopelessly reductive and politically suspect, they view recent advances in neurobiology and its adjacent scientific fields...
Morphing Intelligence
From IQ Measurement to Artificial Brains
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2019
What is intelligence? The concept crosses and blurs the boundaries between natural and artificial, bridging the human brain and the cybernetic world of AI. In this book, the acclaimed philosopher Catherine Malabou ventures a new approach that emphasizes the intertwined, networked relationships among...
The Future of Hegel
Plasticity, Temporality and Dialectic
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2004
This book is one of the most important recent books on Hegel, a philosopher who has had a crucial impact on the shape of continental philosophy. Published here in English for the first time, it includes a substantial preface by Jacques Derrida in which he explores the themes and conclusions of Malabou's...
Che tu sia il mio corpo
Una lettura contemporanea della signoria e della servitù in Hegel
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 6, 2017
Scritta a quattro mani da Judith Butler e Catherine Malabou e tradotta per la prima volta in italiano, quest’opera prende le mosse da una rilettura della dialettica servo-padrone formulata originariamente da Hegel in Fenomenologia dello spirito. “Che tu sia il mio corpo” è il comando che il...
Freud and Monotheism
Moses and the Violent Origins of Religion
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Over the last few decades, vibrant debates regarding post-secularism have found inspiration and provocation in the works of Sigmund Freud. A new interest in the interconnection of psychoanalysis, religion and political theory has emerged, allowing Freud’s illuminating examination of the religious...
Before Tomorrow
Epigenesis and Rationality
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Is contemporary continental philosophy making a break with Kant? The structures of knowledge, taken for granted since Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, are now being called into question: the finitude of the subject, the phenomenal given, a priori synthesis. Relinquish the transcendental: such is the...
by Catherine Malabou
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 18, 2019
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 18, 2019
Tra i libri più importanti usciti sull’argomento negli ultimi trent’anni, quest’opera risulta una lettura essenziale per tutti coloro che sono interessati alla filosofia continentale contemporanea. Da un’assenza di pensiero dell’avvenire nella filosofia di Hegel risulterebbe un’assenza...
Ontologia dell’accidente
Saggio sulla plasticità distruttrice
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 30, 2019
In conseguenza di gravi traumi, talvolta per un nonnulla, la storia di ognuno di noi può subire un radicale cambiamento: la vita che avevamo progettato per anni è costretta a una deviazione improvvisa e irreversibile. Dal trauma sorge una personalità nuova, senza precedenti. Una personalità nata...