Was tun mit unserem Gehirn? Das ist nicht nur eine Frage für Philosophen, Wissenschaftler oder Politiker.. Warum sind wir, wenn unser Gehirn plastisch, formbar und frei ist, noch immer derart in Grenzen und gesellschaftlicher Unfreiheit gefangen?...
In den alten Anatomiebüchern fehlt sie, auf Aktzeichnungen und Gemälden ist sie nicht zu sehen. In der Literatur blieb sie ausgespart, dem Denken entzieht sie sich, körperlich wurde sie unterdrückt: Für sehr lange Zeit war die...
The clitoris was absent in anatomy books, in paintings and sculptures, absent in spirit and even body; it has long been the organ of erased pleasure. We assume that this oversight has been repaired in our times: today, the clitoris is not forgotten but...
A career-spanning collection of published and unpublished writings Catherine Malabou is one of the foremost, most innovative intelligences working in contemporary French philosophy today. Her work articulates a coherent conceptualisation of 'plasticity'...
What is intelligence? The concept crosses and blurs the boundaries between natural and artificial, bridging the human brain and the cybernetic world of AI. In this book, the acclaimed philosopher Catherine Malabou ventures a new approach that emphasizes...
In the usual order of things, lives run their course and eventually one becomes who one is. Bodily and psychic transformations do nothing but reinforce the permanence of identity. But as a result of serious trauma, or sometimes for no reason at all, a...
This book employs a philosophical approach to the "new wounded" (brain lesion patients) to stage a confrontation between psychoanalysis and contemporary neurobiology, focused on the issue of trauma and psychic wounds. It thereby reevaluates the...
Recent neuroscience, in replacing the old model of the brain as a single centralized source of control, has emphasized "plasticity," the quality by which our brains develop and change throughout the course of our lives. Our brains exist as historical...
This book is one of the most important recent books on Hegel, a philosopher who has had a crucial impact on the shape of continental philosophy. Published here in English for the first time, it includes a substantial preface by Jacques Derrida in which...