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• Tour d'horizon
• De la dissociation entre anarchie et anarchisme
• La vertu des chefs de choeur. Archie et anarchie dans la Politique d'Aristote
• Les apories de la Politique
• Première aporie : citoyens, gouvernés, gouvernants
• Deuxième aporie : la synonymie entre "constitution" et "gouvernement"
• Troisième aporie : le sujet de la Politique
• Politique et domination, le retour de l'oikonomia
• L'anarchie ontologique. De la Grèce aux Andes : voyages de Reiner Schürmann
• Anarchie, métaphysique et "déconstruction"
• Évocations critiques de l'anarchisme
• Anarchie et méditation du principe
• De la téléocracie aristotélicienne
• De l'arkhè au principium
• Principe... de rien
• Émergence de l'anarchie comme question politique
• Les temps de l'anarchie
• Lecture de Plotin : la politique comme événement
• Lecture de Foucault
• "Aujourd'hui, que faire ?"
• Le double bind
• Délégitimation de la philosophie, désarmement de l'injonction contradictoire
• Le temple (grec) du soleil
• Pour comprendre..
• L'anarchie éthique. Hétéronomies d'Emmanuel Levinas
• De la dissociation
• Au-delà de la déconstruction
• La substitution sans double injonction
• Deux, mais pas double
• Hétéronomies
• Autonomie seconde
• Élection et esclavage
• La figure du sujet inféodé au tyran
• La figure du prolétaire
• Qui est élu
• Élection et révolution
• Apparition du point obscur
• Premier niveau d'opacité : l'anarchisme d'État
• Quel État ?
• Israël en général
• Second niveau d'opacité : la tout autre hétéronomie
• L'"anarchisme responsable". La pulsion de pouvoir de Jacques Derrida
• La déconstruction est-elle un anarchisme
• Oui et non : déconstruction et anarchisme
• La problématique de l'anarchie
• Au-delà du principe : l'alternative et ses deux raisons
• Première raison : Freud pose à l'anarchisme la question la plus sérieuse qui soit
• Seconde raison : le cas Freud exige une lecture déconstructrice particulière
• Première occurrence du thématisant "anarchie" : la métaphysique et la valeur d'arkhè
• Deuxième occurrence : Lévi-Strauss anarchiste
• Pourquoi "archi-" et pas "an-archi-écriture"
• Troisième occurrence : Levinas au risque du transcendantal
• Quatrième occurrence : la lecture d'Au-delà du principe de plaisir
• Freud et l'ambiguïté de la Bemàchtingungstrieb
• "Quelle différence entre un principe et une pulsion ?"
• Mais que veut dire, pour Derrida, "maîtrise" ?
• La pulsion anarchiste
• Questions à Foucault
• Réponses de Freud
• Terrorisme, anarchie et barrières protectrices
• Anarchisme indéniable, anarchisme dénié
• L'anarchéologie. Le dernier gouvernement de Michel Foucault
• L'anarchisme repensé
• Résistance et transformation
• Résistance
• Transformation
• Dénégation : les lectures-écran
• Le "problème du gouvernement" et le problème du problème
• La gouvernementalité
• La persistance du commandement et de l'obéissance
• La parrêsia : le dernier tournant
• L'impossible possibilité du rapport entre gouvernement et vérité
• L'âme instrumentiste : première approche
• Impossible parrêsia

• L'immanence foucaldienne selon Deleuze
• L'auto-affection
• La réponse de Foucault
• Deux dialogues de Platon, deux sujets
• Cynisme et anarchisme
• La monnaie de la pièce
• L'anarchie profanatrice. Zones de Giorgio Agamben
• Profanation et anarchie : problématique
• L'anarchie véritable
• Dénoncer l'inflation sémantique, destituer le symbolique
• Foucault et le séminaire de 1977-1978 : "le roi règne mais ne gouverne pas"
• La fracture entre commencer et commander
• Le destin théologique de la fracture, ou la structure d'exception de Dieu
• La double anarchie du Père et du Fils
• Retour au "sacré"
• La gloire
• Les "symboles du pouvoir"
• Le sacrifice christique
• Ecce homo sacer
• De l'usage immanent de Foucault
• Critique de la transgression
• Questions et difficultés
• Les quatre frappes de la transgression
• La zone
• L'anarchie mise en scène. Jacques Rancière sans témoins
• Les fausses pistes
• Est-ce la police ?
• Le détour explicatif : le congé donné à l'irreprésentable
• De la différence entre dissensus et différend
• Politiques, partages et représentations
• Partages du sensible
• L'avoir part
• L'assignation des parts
• La philosophie comme "archi-politique"
• Le tirage au sort
• La reconfiguration scénarisée
• Contre Lyotard
• Irreprésentable et imprésentable
• Les deux régimes de l'art
• Paroles de témoin
• La dévalorisation du témoignage
• L'anarchisme sans régime de preuve
• "Voici ce que je viens de voir ici"
• Pour finir : une petite touche de peinture anarchiste
• Conclusion. Être anarchiste.

"Pourquoi certains philosophes parmi les plus importants du soc` siècle ont-ils élaboré des concepts d'anarchie indispensables pour comprendre la situation contemporaine de la pensée en matière d'éthique et de politique sans jamais toutefois se reconnaître anarchistes ? Comme si l'anarchisme était quelque chose d'inavouable, qu'il faudrait cacher alors même qu'on lui vole l'essentiel : la critique de la domination et de la logique de gouvernement. Au fil de l'interprétation critique de textes d'Aristote, Schürmann, Levinas, Derrida, Foucault, Agamben et Rancière, se dégagent dans cet ouvrage les éléments d'une pensée du "non-gouvernable" qui va bien au-delà d'un appel à la désobéissance ou d'une critique convenue du capitalisme. Au moment où s'éveille la conscience planétaire du besoin de politiques alternatives, Catherine Malabou propose de réélaborer une pensée philosophique de l'anarchisme. La seule qui permette d'interroger la légitimité même de la domination gouvernementale et de bousculer notre confiance en la nécessité d'être dirigés pour survivre."--Page 4 of cover.

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' by merging recent neurobiology and medicinal sciences with the history of philosophy and political theory.Across the essays gathered in Plasticity: The Promise of Explosion, Malabou carves a philosophical space between structuralism, deconstruction, cognitive psychology, psychoanalysis and speculative realism. By demonstrating the plastic transformability at the heart of these disciplines, a change that always promises future explosion, Malabou, as a female philosopher, also articulates the need to 'change difference' within patriarchal concepts of tradition itself.The collection is divided into four thematic parts, each of which showcases a major aspect of Malabou's conceptualisation of plasticity. In his introduction, Ian James situates Malabou's work within contemporary philosophy and navigates the contours of her unique work.
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• Translator's Foreword: Why I Translate So Intelligently: Translation Metis in the Era of Google Translate Acknowledgments Preface Introduction
• 1. g: Intelligence and Genetic Fate
• 2. The "Blue Brain"
• 3. Like a Pollock Painting Conclusion Postscript to the English Translation. Artificial Intelligence: The Fourth Blow to Our Narcissism Notes Index.
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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 the intertwined, networked relationships among the biological, the technological, and the symbolic. Malabou traces the modern metamorphoses of intelligence, seeking to understand how neurobiological and neurotechnological advances have transformed our view. She considers three crucial developments: the notion of intelligence as an empirical, genetically based quality measurable by standardized tests; the shift to the epigenetic paradigm, with its emphasis on neural plasticity; and the dawn of artificial intelligence, with its potential to simulate, replicate, and ultimately surpass the workings of the brain. Malabou concludes that a dialogue between human and cybernetic intelligence offers the best if not the only means to build a democratic future. A strikingly original exploration of our changing notions of intelligence and the human and their far-reaching philosophical and political implications, Morphing Intelligence is an essential analysis of the porous border between symbolic and biological life at a time when once-clear distinctions between mind and machine have become uncertain.
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• Translator's Foreword: Why I Translate So Intelligently: Translation Metis in the Era of Google Translate Acknowledgments Preface Introduction
• 1. g: Intelligence and Genetic Fate
• 2. The "Blue Brain"
• 3. Like a Pollock Painting Conclusion Postscript to the English Translation. Artificial Intelligence: The Fourth Blow to Our Narcissism Notes Index.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

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 the intertwined, networked relationships among the biological, the technological, and the symbolic. Malabou traces the modern metamorphoses of intelligence, seeking to understand how neurobiological and neurotechnological advances have transformed our view. She considers three crucial developments: the notion of intelligence as an empirical, genetically based quality measurable by standardized tests; the shift to the epigenetic paradigm, with its emphasis on neural plasticity; and the dawn of artificial intelligence, with its potential to simulate, replicate, and ultimately surpass the workings of the brain. Malabou concludes that a dialogue between human and cybernetic intelligence offers the best if not the only means to build a democratic future. A strikingly original exploration of our changing notions of intelligence and the human and their far-reaching philosophical and political implications, Morphing Intelligence is an essential analysis of the porous border between symbolic and biological life at a time when once-clear distinctions between mind and machine have become uncertain.
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• Introduction
• Histoire de l'intelligence et anatomie d'un conflit
• La fin du "pare-excitations"
• Équilibre et méthode
• Des trois métamorphoses de l'intelligence
• "G". Intelligence et destin génétique
• Le "génie" de Galton
• Du génie à l'eugénisme
• Les échelles métriques de Binet-Simon et leur postérité
• L'assimilation entre "héritable" et "inévitable"
• Des tests d'intelligence à la génétique des comportements
• L'intellect, l'esprit et la tortue de la défense philosophique
• Qualité vs quantité
• Premier rang : psychologie-police
• Deuxième rang : intelligence et biopolitique
• Troisième rang : intelligence et technoscience
• Quatrième rang : intelligence et bêtise
• Le "cerveau bleu"
• Épigenèse et simulation synaptique
• Le changement de paradigme : l'épigénétique
• Le développement cérébral
• Piaget et la construction de l'a priori
• Développement de l'intelligence et croissance organique
• Entre biologie et logique
• Contre une genèse sans structure et une structure sans genèse
• L'hérédité plurielle
• La contre-attaque de l'Intelligence Artificielle
• La plasticité programmée
• Blues
• Le projet Cerveau Bleu
• Comme un tableau de Pollock
• Pouvoir des automatismes
• Dewey : l'intelligence comme méthode
• L'"enquête"
• L'espace public et la démocratie expérimentale
• L'école
• Automaticité et autonomie
• Ex Machina
• Nouvelles pédagogies, nouvelle culture
• Nouvelles frontières pour les humanités.

"À défaut de définir l'intelligence, les psychologues ont entrepris de la mesurer. Après l'échec des tests de mesure, les biologistes l'ont cherchée dans les gènes. La génétique demeurant silencieuse, c'est le cerveau et son développement épigénétique qui ont construit le nouveau laboratoire de l'esprit. Aujourd'hui, l'intelligence autorise sa propre simulation par les puces synaptiques. Les programmes Human Brain et Blue Brain entendent cartographier le cerveau humain dans son intégralité jusqu'à produire un jour une conscience artificielle capable de s'auto-transformer en accédant à son code source. Laissant de côté toute déploration technophobe, Métamorphoses de l'intelligence engage le dialogue entre autonomie et automatisme, ouvrant ainsi à l'intelligence la voie prometteuse de la démocratie expérimentale."--Page 4 of cover.

• Cerebral auto-affection
• Brain wounds: from the neurological novel to the theater of absence
• Identity without precedent
• Psychoanalytic objection: can there be destruction without a drive of destruction
• What is a psychic event?
• The "libido theory" and the otherness of the sexual to itself: traumatic neurosis and war neurosis in question
• Separation, death, the thing, Freud, Lacan, and the missed encounter
• Neurological objection: rehabilitating the event
• The equivocity of reparation: from elasticity to resilience
• Toward a plasticity of the compulsion to repeat
• The subject of the accident.

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 brain as an organ that is not separated from psychic life but rather at its center. The "new wounded" suffer from psychic wounds that traditional psychoanalysis, with its emphasis on the psyche's need to integrate events into its own history, cannot understand or cure. They are victims of various cerebral lesions or attacks, including degenerative brain diseases such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's. Changes caused by cerebral lesions frequently manifest themselves as an unprecedented metamorphosis in the patient's identity. A person with Alzheimer's disease, for example, is not--or not only--someone who has "changed" or been "modified" but rather a subject who has become someone else. The behavior of subjects who are victims of "sociopolitical traumas, " such as abuse, war, terrorist attacks, or sexual assaults, displays striking resemblances to that of subjects who have suffered brain damage. Thus today the border separating organic trauma and sociopolitical trauma is increasingly porous. Effacing the limits that separate "neurobiology" from "sociopathy, " brain damage tends also to blur the boundaries between history and nature. At the same time, it reveals that political oppression today assumes the guise of a traumatic blow stripped of all justification. We are thus dealing with a strange mixture of nature and politics, in which politics takes on the appearance of nature, and nature disappears in order to assume the mask of politics.
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• Translator's Preface Insert Introduction The Meaning of the "Feminine" Admiring the Wonders of Difference Why the "Feminine"? Isn't the privilege of the feminine determined by a particular situation of "woman"? The Vulva's Schema The Dangers of Deneutralizing Difference, or the Ambivalence of the Feminine The Neuter and Evil Grammatology and Plasticity The Phoenix, The Spider and The Salamander Woman's Possibility, Philosophy's Impossibility Acting As If Acting Together Acting Without.
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Translated by CAROLYN SHREAD In the post-feminist age the fact that 'woman' finds herself deprived of her 'essence' only confirms, paradoxically, a very ancient state of affairs: 'woman' has never been able to define herself in any other way than in terms of the violence done to her. Violence alone confers her being - whether it is domestic and social violence or theoretical violence. The critique of 'essentialism' (i.e. there is no specifically feminine essence) proposed by both gender theory and deconstruction is just one more twist in the ontological negation of the feminine. Contrary to all expectations, however, this ever more radical hollowing out of woman within intellectual movements supposed to protect her, this assimilation of woman to a 'being nothing', clears the way for a new beginning. Let us now assume the thought of 'woman' as an empty but resistant essence, an essence that is resistant precisely because it is empty, a resistance that strikes down the impossibility of its own disappearance once and for all. To ask what remains of woman after the sacrifice of her being is to signal a new era in the feminist struggle, changing the terms of the battle to go beyond both essentialism and anti-essentialism. In this path-breaking work Catherine Malabou begins with philosophy, asking: what is the life of a woman philosopher?
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• Machine generated contents note: More than a Title
• Situation of the Question of Change in Heidegger's Thought
• Migratory-Metamorphic Articulation
• Janus-Head Gestell
• Heidegger and the Others
• pt. I Metamorphoses and Migrations of Metaphysics
• Change at the Beginning
• Double Process of Schematization
• 1. Metabolism of the Immutable
• Structural Traits of Philosophy
• Whole-Form and Its Particular Trajectories
• Change -- and Change
• 2. Mound of Visions: Plato Averts His Gaze
• "Heidegger's Doctrine of Truth"
• Miming Bildung
• History and Change
• First Incision Geltung
• 3. "Color, the Very Look of Things, Their Eidos, Presencing, Being -- This Is What Changes"
• W, W, & V, or the Real Foundation of Inversion
• Will and Its Fashioning
• Inclusion of the Thinker in What Is Thought
• Transformation of Transcendence
• 4. Outline of a Cineplastic of Being -- ^

A major step in the series of texts in which Malabou elaborates a body of theory that starts from certain consequences of the philosophies of difference in order to go beyond them, The Heidegger Change is also an audacious work of theory for an age at risk of forgetting what it might take to do theory. A piece of writing in its own right, the text invents its own terminological and metaphoric lexicon while addressing its reader directly and urgently, and thus recalls the inventiveness and style of the classic theoretical texts of previous decades even as it stakes a route toward novel conceptual possibilities."--Pub. desc

• Foreword, by Clayton Crockett Translator's Introduction, by Carolyn Shread Plasticity at the Dusk of Writing Afterword: Of the Impossibility of Fleeing-Plasticity Notes.
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A former student and collaborator of Jacques Derrida, Catherine Malabou has generated worldwide acclaim for her progressive rethinking of postmodern, Derridean critique. Building on her notion of plasticity, a term she originally borrowed from Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit and adapted to a reading of Hegel's own work, Malabou transforms our understanding of the political and the religious, revealing the malleable nature of these concepts and their openness to positive reinvention. In French to describe something as plastic is to recognize both its flexibility and its explosiveness-its capacity not only to receive and give form but to annihilate it as well. After defining plasticity in terms of its active embodiments, Malabou applies the notion to the work of Hegel, Heidegger, Levinas, Levi-Strauss, Freud, and Derrida, recasting their writing as a process of change (rather than mediation) between dialectic and deconstruction. Malabou contrasts plasticity against the graphic element of Derrida's work and the notion of trace in Derrida and Levinas, arguing that plasticity refers to sculptural forms that accommodate or express a trace. She then expands this analysis to the realms of politics and religion, claiming, against Derrida, that "the event" of justice and democracy is not fixed but susceptible to human action.
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• Foreword, by Clayton Crockett Translator's Introduction, by Carolyn Shread Plasticity at the Dusk of Writing Afterword: Of the Impossibility of Fleeing-Plasticity Notes.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

A former student and collaborator of Jacques Derrida, Catherine Malabou has generated worldwide acclaim for her progressive rethinking of postmodern, Derridean critique. Building on her notion of plasticity, a term she originally borrowed from Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit and adapted to a reading of Hegel's own work, Malabou transforms our understanding of the political and the religious, revealing the malleable nature of these concepts and their openness to positive reinvention. In French to describe something as plastic is to recognize both its flexibility and its explosiveness-its capacity not only to receive and give form but to annihilate it as well. After defining plasticity in terms of its active embodiments, Malabou applies the notion to the work of Hegel, Heidegger, Levinas, Levi-Strauss, Freud, and Derrida, recasting their writing as a process of change (rather than mediation) between dialectic and deconstruction. Malabou contrasts plasticity against the graphic element of Derrida's work and the notion of trace in Derrida and Levinas, arguing that plasticity refers to sculptural forms that accommodate or express a trace. She then expands this analysis to the realms of politics and religion, claiming, against Derrida, that "the event" of justice and democracy is not fixed but susceptible to human action.
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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 products, developing in interaction with themselves and with their surroundings.Hence there is a thin line between the organization of the nervous system and the political and social organization that both conditions and is conditioned by human experience. Looking carefully at contemporary neuroscience, it is hard not to notice that the new way of talking about the brain mirrors the management discourse of the neo-liberal capitalist world in which we now live, with its talk of decentralization, networks, and flexibility. Consciously or unconsciously, science cannot but echo the world in which it takes place.In the neo-liberal world, 'plasticity' can be equated with 'flexibility' - a term that has become a buzzword in economics and management theory. The plastic brain would thus represent just another style of power, which, although less centralized, is still a means of control.In this book, Catherine Malabou develops a second, more radical meaning for plasticity. Not only does plasticity allow our brains to adapt to existing circumstances, it opens a margin of freedom to intervene, to change those very circumstances. Such an understanding opens up a newly transformative aspect of the neurosciences.In insisting on this proximity between the neurosciences and the social sciences, Malabou applies to the brain Marx's well-known phrase about history: people make their own brains, but they do not know it. This book is a summons to such knowledge.
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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 he explores the themes and conclusions of Malabou's book. The Future of Hegel: Plasticity, Temporality and Dialectic restores Hegel's rich and complex concepts of time and temporality to contemporary philosophy. It examines his concept of time, relating it to perennial topics in philosophy such as substance, accident and the identity of the subject. Catherine Malabou's also contrasts her account of Hegelian temporality with the interpretation given by Heidegger in Being and Time , arguing that it is the concept of 'plasticity' that best describes Hegel's theory of temporality. The future is understood not simply as a moment in time, but as something malleable and constantly open to change through our interpretation. The book also develops Hegel's preoccupation with the history of Greek thought and Christianity and explores the role of theology in his thought. Essential reading for those interested in Hegel and contemporar continental philosophy, The Future of Hegel will also be fascinating to those interested in the ideas of Heidegger and Derrida.
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• Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface by Jacques Derrida; Acknowledgements; Preliminary remarks; Introduction; Hegel on Man: fashioning a second nature; Hegel on God: the turn of double nature; Hegel on the philosopher or, two forms of the fall; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Published here in English for the first time, Catherine Malabou's groundbreaking book, is one of the most important recent books on Hegel. Seeking to restore Hegel's concepts of time and temporality The Future of Hegel is essential reading for.