Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
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 It contains fourteen chapters, including one unpublished essay by Malabou, that explore how Malabou's thought uniquely contributes to the contemporary development, situation, and future of philosophy.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.
Synopsis
This volume contributes to the growing body of literature exploring the work of contemporary French philosopher Catherine Malabou. Through its fifteen contributions, including two previously untranslated essays by Malabou, the volume explores the various ways in which Malabou's thought both performs and furnishes resources for the negotiation of philosophy's attachment and detachment from itself and other disciplines. What kind of interaction can philosophy have with either science or politics without conquering them? 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 detachment of Malabou from her own philosophical training in deconstruction, the theme of habit and the question of new attachments, detachments through the relation of Malabou's thought and science, and the detachments that transpire through philosophy's confrontation with politics. In order to have a future, philosophy must detach from its own tradition and passionately confront questions of race, gender, and colonialism.
Synopsis
This volume contributes to the emerging critical conversation around Catherine Malabou's thought. It focuses on some of Malabou's underexamined philosophical thematics, including dis-attachment or farewell. It also engages with Malabou's relation to deconstruction and her use of science.