Plasticity at the Dusk of Writing: Dialectic, Destruction, Deconstruction
Catherine Malabou; Translated by Carolyn Shread, Foreword by Clayton Crockett, and Introduction by Carolyn Shread
November, 2009
Cloth, 136 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-14524-4
$40.00
/ £27.50
"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" — Peter Gratton, Symposium
"Catherine Malabou is one of the leading continental philosophers in the generation to emerge after deconstruction. Putting Derridean deconstruction into dialogue with the two chief models of philosophy that preceded it (Hegelian dialectic and Heideggerian destruction), Plasticity at the Dusk of Writing offers a clear account of the philosophical past in which deconstruction emerged-as well as a programmatic statement of what an attentive observer might see to be the future that could arrive in its twilight." — Jeffrey Kosky, Washington and Lee University
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Catherine Malabou is a member of the philosophy faculty at the Université 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 articulating the concept of plasticity at the crossing of philosophy (dialectic and deconstruction) and neuroscience.Carolyn Shread is visiting lecturer of French at Mount Holyoke College. She has translated both scholarly (Frederic Vandenberghe's Philosophical History of German Sociology) and literary (Fatima Gallaire's House of Wives, Marie Vieux-Chauvet's The Raptors) texts and has published articles on translation studies, feminist theory, and contemporary French and Francophone literature. Clayton Crockett is associate professor and director of religious studies at the University of Central Arkansas. He is the author or editor of four books, most recently Interstices of the Sublime: Theology and Psychoanalytic Theory. He is a coeditor, along with Slavoj Žižek and Creston Davis, of Hegel and the Infinite: Religion, Politics, and the Dialectic.
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