Thinking Catherine Malabou: Passionate Detachments

by Thomas Wormald (Editor), Father (Editor)

Overview

This important volume contributes to the growing body of literature exploring the work of contemporary French philosopher Catherine Malabou. It contains fourteen chapters, including one unpublished essay by Malabou, that explore how Malabou's thought uniquely contributes to the contemporary development, situation, and future of philosophy.

The volume explores in various ways how Malabou's thought both performs and furnishes resources for the negotiation of philosophy's attachment and dis-attachment from itself and other disciplines. What kind of interaction can philosophy have with either science or politics without conquering it? How does one carry out philosophy while subverting it, changing it, directing it on or opening it up to different pathways? The chapters explore the dis-attachment of Malabou from her own philosophical training in deconstruction, the theme of habit, dis-attachments through the relation of Malabou's thought and science, and the dis-attachments that transpire through philosophy's confrontation with politics. The contributors demonstrate that philosophy must dis-attach from its own tradition to adequately confront questions of race, gender, and colonialism in order to have a future.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781786606921
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	04/16/2018
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Isabell Dahms is a graduate student in the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy at Kingston University, UK.

Thomas Wormald is a graduate student in the Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism at Western University, Canada.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Attaching and Detaching from Philosophy with Catherine Malabou, Thomas Wormald and Isabell Dahms / Openings / Watching Thinking Move: Malabou in Translation, Carolyn Shread / Section One: Detaching from Derrida? The Future of Deconstruction After Malabou / 1. The Subject of Science: Badiou, Derrida and Miller, Catherine Malabou (Translated by William Samson) / 2. Malabou and the Limits of Grammatology, Debbie Goldgaber / 3. The ‘Image of Thought’ at Dusk: Derridean-Husserlian Responsibility, Destructive Plasticity, and the Manifesto, John Nyman / Section Two: Are New Attachments Possible? On Habit and Habitual Returns / 4. Habitual Propensity: Plastic or Elastic? An Encounter Between Catherine Malabou and Sigmund Freud on the Phenomenon of Habit, Sandrine Hansen / 5. Attached to Detachment: A Materialist Indifference in Catherine Malabou, Cristobal Duran / 6. Changing (Reading) Habits – Re-reading Hegel Speculatively with Malabou, Isabell Dahms / 7. Habitués, Thomas Wormald / Section Three: Towards a Passionate Philosophy / Part I - The Life of Science / 8. After Deconstruction? The Challenge of Malabou’s Plastic Biohistory, Joshua Schuster / 9. The Plasticity of Empathy: A Materialist, Post-Phenomenological Critique of Einfühlung in Aesthetics, Phenomenology and Contemporary Neuroscience, Andrew Bevan / 10. Event, Plasticity and Mutation: Harnessing the Work of Malabou and Badiou in Support of a Molecular Event, Nancy Nisbet / Part II – The Politics of Philosophy / 11. Reading Derrida’s Glas: A Queer Presence Alongside Hegel, Michael Washington / 12. Plasticity of the Mind: Discussing and Wondering at Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations Together with Catherine Malabou, Georgia Mouroutsou / 13. The Still Missing People”: Thinking the Affective Work of Art in the Work of Gilles Deleuze, Through Catherine Malabou’s Concept of Plasticity, Meadhbh McNutt / 14. Diagnosing the Sociopolitical Wound: Frantz Fanon and Catherine Malabou, Sujaya Dhanvantari / Partings / 15. Discontinuity and Difference: Heidegger and Lévi-Strauss, Catherine Malabou

Editorial Reviews

Containing two previously unpublished essays by Malabou, Thinking Catherine Malabou deepens our understanding of this important, contemporary French philosopher. This is an invaluable collection of essays. The scholars assembled here clearly understand Malabou’s work and its impact on philosophy today. By showing us how Malabou’s thought detaches itself from philosophy, Thinking Catherine Malabou points the way in which philosophy must be reconfigured in the future.

Leonard Lawlor