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Catherine Malabou - Changing Difference - 9780745651088 - V9780745651088
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Changing Difference

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Description for Changing Difference Hardback. * Catherine Malabou is a rising star of French philosophy and has a high reputation in the English speaking world. * She is particularly well known for her innovative arguments about plasticity and the body, and for her work at the intersection of philosophy, feminism and neuroscience. Num Pages: 180 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JFFK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 148 x 18. Weight in Grams: 360.
Translated by CAROLYN SHREAD

In the post-feminist age the fact that ‘woman' finds herself deprived of her ‘essence' only confirms, paradoxically, a very ancient state of affairs: ‘woman' has never been able to define herself in any other way than in terms of the violence done to her. Violence alone confers her being - whether it is domestic and social violence or theoretical violence. The critique of ‘essentialism' (i.e. there is no specifically feminine essence) proposed by both gender theory and deconstruction is just one more twist in the ontological negation of the feminine.

Contrary ... Read more

In this path-breaking work Catherine Malabou begins with philosophy, asking: what is the life of a woman philosopher?

 

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
180
Condition
New
Number of Pages
180
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745651088
SKU
V9780745651088
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About Catherine Malabou
Catherine Malabou is Professor of Philosophy at Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Kingston University London

Reviews for Changing Difference
"Complex and suggestive … Malabou's concept of plasticity has considerable potential to advance our thinking about gender and essentialism." LSE Review of Books "Confronting the current anti-essentialist doxa, Malabou claims for woman an essence that is never more itself than when it escapes its own clutches. This essentialism is not merely tactical or pragmatic, it is ... Read more

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