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Plasticity at the Dusk of Writing: Dialectic, Destruction, Deconstruction
Catherine Malabou
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Hardback. Translator(s): Shread, Carolyn. Series: Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture. Num Pages: 136 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF7; HPN; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 218 x 148 x 16. Weight in Grams: 288. Dialectic, Destruction, Deconstruction. Series: Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture. 136 pages. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: HPCF7; HPN; HPS. Dimension: 218 x 148 x 16. Weight: 290. Translator(s): Shread, Carolyn.
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 of Hegel's own work, Malabou transforms our understanding of the political and the religious, revealing the malleable nature of these concepts and their openness to positive reinvention. In French to describe something as plastic is to recognize both its flexibility and its explosiveness-its capacity not only to receive and give form but to annihilate it as well. ... Read more
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 of Hegel's own work, Malabou transforms our understanding of the political and the religious, revealing the malleable nature of these concepts and their openness to positive reinvention. In French to describe something as plastic is to recognize both its flexibility and its explosiveness-its capacity not only to receive and give form but to annihilate it as well. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
136
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Series
Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture
Condition
New
Weight
312g
Number of Pages
136
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231145244
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V9780231145244
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About Catherine Malabou
Catherine Malabou is a member of the philosophy faculty at the Universite Paris-X Nanterre and visiting professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Her books in English are The Future of Hegel: Plasticity, Temporality, Dialectic, What Should We Do with Our Brain, and Counter-Path, with Jacques Derrida. Her work mainly concerns ... Read more
Reviews for Plasticity at the Dusk of Writing: Dialectic, Destruction, Deconstruction
Malabou has provided a tantalizing glimpse of the ways in which philosophy at the dusk of writing must increasingly become our own way to recognize our potentials in an era of plasticity.
Brenna Bhandar and Jonathan Goldeberg-Hiller Theory and Event transformative
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Brenna Bhandar and Jonathan Goldeberg-Hiller Theory and Event transformative
Peter Gratton Symposium