Catherine Malabou

Catherine Malabou (born 1959) is a French philosopher. She is currently "maître de conferences" in the Philosophy Department at the Université Paris-X Nanterre and Visiting Professor in the Comparative Literature Department at the State University of New York at Buffalo.

Education

Malabou graduated from the École Normale Supérieure Lettres et Sciences Humaines (Fontenay-Saint-Cloud). Her "agrégation" and doctorate were obtained, under the supervision of Jacques Derrida, from the École des hautes études en sciences sociales. Her dissertation became the book, "L'Avenir de Hegel: Plasticité, Temporalité, Dialectique" (1996).

Work

Central to Malabou's philosophy is the concept of "plasticity," which she derives in part from the work of Hegel, as well as from medical science, for example, from work on stem cells and from the concept of neuroplasticity.

In 1999, Malabou published "Voyager avec Jacques Derrida – La Contre-allée", co-authored with Derrida.

Malabou's most recent book, "Les nouveaux blessés" (2007), concerns the intersection between neuroscience, psychoanalysis, and philosophy, thought through the phenomenon of trauma.

Bibliography

Books

*"Les nouveaux blessés: de Freud a la neurologie: penser les traumatismes contemporains" (Paris: Bayard, 2007).
*"La plasticité au soir de l'écriture" (Paris: Éditions Léo Scheer, 2004).
*"Que faire de notre cerveau?" (Paris: Bayard, 2004); "What Should We Do With Our Brain?" (New York: Fordham University Press, forthcoming, trans. Sebastian Rand).
*"Le Change Heidegger, du fantastique en philosophie" (Paris: Éditions Léo Scheer, 2004).
*"Plasticité" (Paris: Éditions Léo Scheer, 1999).
*"Voyager avec Jacques Derrida – La Contre-allée", with Jacques Derrida (Paris: La Quinzaine littéraire-Louis Vuitton, 1999); "Counterpath: Traveling with Jacques Derrida" (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004, trans. David Wills).
*"L'Avenir de Hegel: Plasticité, Temporalité, Dialectique" (Paris: Vrin, 1996); "The Future of Hegel: Plasticity, Temporality, and Dialectic" (New York: Routledge, 2004, trans. Lisabeth During).

Articles

* [http://www.jcrt.org/archives/09.1/Malabou.pdf "A Conversation with Catherine Malabou"] , "Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory" 9 (2008): 1–13.
*"The End of Writing? Grammatology and Plasticity," "The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms" 12 (2007): 431–441.
*"An Eye at the Edge of Discourse," "Communication Theory" 17 (2007): 16–25.
*"Another Possibility," "Research in Phenomenology" 36 (2006): 115–129.
*"The Form of an 'I'," in John D. Caputo & Michael J. Scanlon (eds.), "Augustine and Postmodernism: Confessions and Circumfession" (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005): 127–137.
*"History and the Process of Mourning in Hegel and Freud," "Radical Philosophy" 106 (2001): 15–20.
*"Plastic Readings of Hegel," "Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain" 41-42 (2000): 132–141.
*"Who's Afraid of Hegelian Wolves?," in Paul Patton (ed.), "Deleuze: A Critical Reader" (Oxford: Blackwell, 1996): 114–138.

econdary literature

*During, Lisabeth, "Catherine Malabou and the Currency of Hegelianism," "Hypatia" 15:4 (2000): 190–195.

External links

* [http://www.u-paris10.fr/10980645/0/fiche_EE8__pagelibre/ Home page, Paris]
* [http://www.complit.buffalo.edu/complit/faculty/malabou.shtml Home page, Buffalo]