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Author:   Catherine Malabou ,  Tyler M. Williams ,  D. J. S. Cross ,  Adrian Johnston
Publisher:   Fordham University Press
Imprint:   Fordham University Press
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9781531513764

ISBN 10:   153151376
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   07 July 2026
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Table of Contents

Preface: In the Usual Order of Things Tyler M. Williams and D. J. S. Cross vii Introduction: The Taking Shape of Malabou Adrian Johnston xvii 1 The Duplicity of Memory: Hegel and Proust 1 2 Images of the Elsewhere in Rousseau’s Political Philosophy 8 3 Literary Time and the Thought of Time: Proust, Reader of Ricoeur 14 4 To Paint the Sea with Another Sense of Direction: Proust and Elstir 28 5 Photocopies of Consciousness: Hegel, Copyright, and the Right of the Author 37 6 Speculative Plastique 47 7 Economy of Violence, Violence of Economy: Derrida and Marx 71 8 Hegel’s Science of Logic: Translator’s Foreword to the Preface to the Second Edition (1831) 90 9 The Times of Experience: Aristotle’s Style 99 10 What Good Is It to Be Sparing of Life When There Is Almost None Left? 106 11 From Pascal to Heidegger: Vincent Carraud’s Pascal et la philosophie 113 12 Writing the End of Love: Proust, or Genre Put Away 121 13 Derrida’s Way: Noblesse oblige 136 14 Negatives of Dialectic: Between Hegel and Heidegger’s Hegel (Hyppolite, Koyré, Kojève) 142 15 The Metamorphosis of Constancy: A Reading of Nietzsche and the Shadow of God 158 16 Gré 177 17 The Ungraspable in Question, or Take to Dying 193 18 Dialectical Negativity and Transcendental Pain: Heidegger’s Reading of Hegel in Volume 68 of the Gesamtausgabe 202 Afterword 215 Catherine Malabou Notes 219 Works Cited 229 Index 239

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""Formations offers a striking glimpse into the emergence of a singular, transformative, and genuinely philosophical voice – one that continues to reshape our understanding of form, meaning, and life itself."" - Alenka Zupančič, author of Let Them Rot: Antigone’s Parallax ""One of France’s foremost living philosophers, Malabou stands as a transitional figure in the history of philosophy in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, a bridge from the exceptional group of post–May ’68 thinkers. Formations provides a window into the importance of literature to her praxis of philosophy."" - Emily Apter, New York University

""Formations offers a striking glimpse into the emergence of a singular, transformative, and genuinely philosophical voice--one that continues to reshape our understanding of form, meaning, and life itself.""---Alenka Zupančič, author of Let Them Rot: Antigone's Parallax ""One of France's foremost living philosophers, Malabou stands as a transitional figure in the history of philosophy in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, a bridge from the exceptional group of post-May '68 thinkers. Formations provides a window into the importance of literature to her praxis of philosophy.""---Emily Apter, New York University

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Catherine Malabou (Author) Catherine Malabou is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine, and Visiting Professor of Modern European Philosophy at Kingston University. Her many books include Stop Thief! Anarchism and Philosophy (2023), Pleasure Erased: The Clitoris Unthought (2022), The Ontology of the Accident: An Essay on Destructive Plasticity (2012), The New Wounded: From Neurosis to Brain Damage (2012), and What Should We Do with Our Brain? (2008). Tyler M. Williams (Edited & Translated By) Tyler M. Williams is Associate Professor of English, Humanities, and Philosophy at Midwestern State University. He is editor of Catherine Malabou’s Plasticity: The Promise of Explosion (2022). D. J. S. Cross (Edited & Translated By) D. J. S. Cross is Assistant Professor of Translation at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He is the author of Deleuze and the Problem of Affect (2021). Adrian Johnston (Introducer) Adrian Johnston is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of New Mexico. His most recent book is Infinite Greed: The Inhuman Selfishness of Capital (2024).

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