Description: Plasticity at the Dusk of Writing : Dialectic, Destruction, Deconstruction, Hardcover by Malabou, Catherine; Shread, Carolyn (TRN); Crockett, Clayton (FRW), ISBN 0231145241, ISBN-13 9780231145244, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US 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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Book Title: Plasticity at the Dusk of Writing : Dialectic, Destruction, Decon
Number of Pages: 136 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Plasticity at the Dusk of Writing : Dialectic, Destruction, Deconstruction
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Item Height: 0.1 in
Publication Year: 2009
Subject: Movements / Deconstruction, Methodology, Individual Philosophers, History & Surveys / Modern, Aesthetics, Political
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 10.4 Oz
Author: Catherine Malabou
Subject Area: Philosophy
Item Length: 0.9 in
Series: Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture Ser.
Item Width: 0.6 in
Format: Hardcover
