Changing Difference by Catherine Malabou

Changing Difference by Catherine Malabou

* Catherine Malabou is a rising star of French philosophy and has a high reputation in the English speaking world. * She is particularly well known for her innovative arguments about plasticity and the body, and for her work at the intersection of philosophy, feminism and neuroscience.

Complex and suggestive Malabou's concept of plasticity has considerable potential to advance our thinking about gender and essentialismLSE Review of Books Confronting the current anti-essentialist doxa, Malabou claims for woman an essence that is never more itself than when it escapes its own clutches. This essentialism is not merely tactical or pragmatic, it is a bold philosophical position that gives back to feminism its prematurely sacrificed reason to be. A rare book, one of the few in history, in which philosophy rises to the challenges posed by sexual difference. Professor Joan Copjec, University of Buffalo Changing Difference will introduce many new readers to the remarkable work of Catherine Malabou. It extends the profound philosophical iconoclasm of her readings of Derrida, Hegel and Heidegger and her emergent thought of plasticity to an encounter with queer and gender theory on the question of ontological and sexual difference. Yet it is above all a passionate and inspiring meditation on 'what, for a woman, is the life of a philosopher'. Professor Howard Caygill, Kingston University London

Catherine Malabou is Professor of Philosophy at Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Kingston University London

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ISBN 13	9780745651088
ISBN 10	0745651089
Title	Changing Difference
Author	Catherine Malabou
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Year published	2011-08-12
Number of pages	180
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