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A career-spanning collection of published and unpublished writings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.
In this urgently needed book, Marc Crepon addresses the nature of
hatred and its manifestations in international and domestic
terrorism, racism, war and other forms of violence. Looking at the
evidence of violence motivated by hatred, including US racial
segregation, South African apartheid and the terrorist attacks in
New York City in 2001 and in Paris in 2015, Crepon makes a
compelling case for why hatred is the burden of our times.With
inspiration from the non-violence resistance movements of Mahatma
Gandhi, Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King Jr., Crepon reveals
how philosophy and literature, using courage and a new language,
can overcome the many forms of hatred and violence present in our
lives today.
A career-spanning collection of published and unpublished writings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.
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy
Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive
selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to
reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional
imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor
pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues
beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving and promoting the world's literature.
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy
Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive
selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to
reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional
imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor
pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues
beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving and promoting the world's literature.
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This
IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced
typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have
occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor
pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original
artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe
this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections,
have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing
commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We
appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the
preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy
Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive
selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to
reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional
imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor
pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues
beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving and promoting the world's literature.
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy
Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive
selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to
reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional
imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor
pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues
beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving and promoting the world's literature.
Spoken language communication is arguably the most important
activity that distinguishes humans from nonhuman species. While
many animal species communicate and exchange information using
sound, humans are unique in the complexity of the information that
can be conveyed using speech, and in the range of ideas, thoughts
and emotions that can be expressed. Despite the importance of
speech communication for the entire structure of human society,
there are many aspects of this process that are not fully
understood. One problem is that research on speech and language is
typically carried out by different groups of scientists working on
separate aspects of the underlying functional and neural systems.
On the one hand, research from an auditory perspective focuses on
the acoustical properties of speech sounds, their representation in
the auditory system, and how that representation is used to extract
phonetic information. On the other hand, research from
psycholinguistic perspectives examines the processes by which
representations of meaning are extracted from the acoustic-phonetic
sequence, and how these are linked to the construction of
higher-level linguistic interpretation in terms of sentences and
discourse. Till now, there has been relatively little interaction
between speech researchers from these two groups, in spite of a
dramatic expansion in recent years of research into the neural
bases of auditory and linguistic functions. This book bridges the
gap between these two lines of research, recognising that both have
the same aims in understanding how the motor gestures of a speaker
are transformed to sounds and how those are mapped onto meaning in
the comprehension of spoken language. It presents the work of
leading researchers specializing in a wide range of topics within
speech perception and language processing - along with
contributions from key researchers in neuroanatomy and
neuro-imaging. This important new work cuts through the traditional
boundaries and fosters crossdisciplinary interactions in this
important and rapidly developing area of the biological and
cognitive sciences.
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