Thinking Catherine Malabou: Passionate Detachments [Paperback]

This volume contributes to the growing body of literature exploring the work of contemporary French philosopher Catherine Malabou. Through its fifteen contributions, including two previously untranslated essays by Malabou, the volume explores the various ways in which Malabou's thought both performs and furnishes resources for the negotiation of philosophy's attachment and detachment from itself and other disciplines. What kind of interaction can philosophy have with either science or politics without conquering them? How does one carry out philosophy while subverting it, changing it, directing it on or opening it up to different pathways?

The chapters explore the detachment of Malabou from her own philosophical training in deconstruction, the theme of habit and the question of new attachments, detachments through the relation of Malabou's thought and science, and the detachments that transpire through philosophy's confrontation with politics. In order to have a future, philosophy must detach from its own tradition and passionately confront questions of race, gender, and colonialism.

Isabell Dahms is a graduate student in the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy at Kingston University, UK.

Thomas Wormald is a graduate student in the Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism at Western University, Canada.

Containing two previously untranslated essays by Malabou, Thinking Catherine Malabou deepens our understanding of this important, contemporary French philosopher. This is an invaluable collection of essays. The scholars assembled here clearly understand Malabous work and its impact on philosophy today. By showing us how Malabous thought detaches itself from philosophy, Thinking Catherine Malabou points the way in which philosophy must be reconfigured in the future. Leonard Lawlor, Sparks Professor of Philosophy, Penn State University

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