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Catherine Malabou is one of the foremost, most innovative intelligences working in contemporary French philosophy today. Her work articulates a coherent conceptualisation of 'plasticity' by merging recent neurobiology and medicinal sciences with the history of philosophy and political theory. Across the essays gathered in 'Plasticity: The Promise of Explosion', Malabou carves a philosophical space between structuralism, deconstruction, cognitive psychology, psychoanalysis and speculative realism. By demonstrating the plastic transformability at the heart of these disciplines, a change that always promises future explosion, Malabou, as a female philosopher, also articulates the need to 'change difference' within patriarchal concepts of tradition itself.

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Plasticity is a thoughtfully curated collection of essays by one of the most innovative and inspiring philosophers writing today. For the past several decades, Catherine Malabou has bravely blazed a trail towards something thus-far unprecedented: a novel form of naturalism shaped by the insights of European theoretical currents from German idealism through today. Malabou deftly addresses anew such perennial-yet-pressing philosophical tensions as those between mind and body, freedom and determinism, as well as transcendentalism and historicism. Malabou's oeuvre, both philosophically important and politically timely, opens up crucial possibilities for radically rethinking the interrelationships between philosophy, science, psychoanalysis, feminism, and politics. -- ""Adrian Johnston, University of New Mexico"" Apart from confirming Catherine Malabou as a major philosopher with a sustained interest in biology, this collection highlights two underappreciated aspects of her thought: its political implications, ranging from her writing on the crowd, to the prison, sovereignty, decolonization, and anarchism; most of all, it demonstrates her relentless commitment to self-questioning. -- ""Arne De Boever, California Institute of the Arts and author of Plastic Sovereignties""

"Plasticity is a thoughtfully curated collection of essays by one of the most innovative and inspiring philosophers writing today. For the past several decades, Catherine Malabou has bravely blazed a trail towards something thus-far unprecedented: a novel form of naturalism shaped by the insights of European theoretical currents from German idealism through today. Malabou deftly addresses anew such perennial-yet-pressing philosophical tensions as those between mind and body, freedom and determinism, as well as transcendentalism and historicism. Malabou's oeuvre, both philosophically important and politically timely, opens up crucial possibilities for radically rethinking the interrelationships between philosophy, science, psychoanalysis, feminism, and politics. -- ""Adrian Johnston, University of New Mexico"" Apart from confirming Catherine Malabou as a major philosopher with a sustained interest in biology, this collection highlights two underappreciated aspects of her thought: its political implications, ranging from her writing on the crowd, to the prison, sovereignty, decolonization, and anarchism; most of all, it demonstrates her relentless commitment to self-questioning. -- ""Arne De Boever, California Institute of the Arts and author of Plastic Sovereignties"""

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Catherine Malabou, Professor of Philosophy, CRMEP, Kingston University. Ian James, Fellow in French, Downing College, University of Cambridge. Tyler Williams, Assistant Professor of English, Humanities, and Philosophy, Midwestern State University.

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