Ms Catherine Malabou

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Catherine Malabou
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About

After studying at the the University of Paris-Sorbonne and the Ecole Normale Supérieure at Fontenay Saint-Cloud, I passed the "agrégation" of Philosophy and wrote my PhD at the Ecoles des Hautes Etudes under the supervision of Jacques Derrida. I then became a Maître de Conférences at the University of Paris-Nanterre. I was appointed as a professor of philosophy at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy at Kingston Universityin 2011. In 2016, I was appointed at the University of California at Irvine in Comparative Literature and European Languages and Studies. This one semester chair is the one previously attributed to Jacques Derrida.

Academic responsibilities

Visiting Professor in Modern European Philosophy

Qualifications

  • PhD Paris Ehess 1994
  • Habilitation Thesis University of Strasbourg 2003
  • Former student of the Ecole Normale Supérieure Saint-Cloud
  • Agrégation of Philosophy

Teaching and learning

Postgraduate courses taught

Research

For many years now, I have explored the concept of plasticity. Starting with the philosophy of Hegel (Hegel is the first philosopher to confer plasticity the diginity of a concept), I then extended my research to contemporary neurobiology, in which plasticity is a central concept. Neural plasticity designates the ability of the brain to shape iself under the influence of experience, education and culture, but also of accidents and trauma. In my book The New Wounded, I proposed a rereading of Freud in the light of the most recent neuro-psychoanalytic studies an redefinition of traumatic events.

More recently, I was interested in speculative realism and wrote  book (After Tommorrow, Epigenesis and Rationality, 2016). My last book (Columbia UP, 2019) is Morphing Intelligence, From IQ Measurement to Artificial Brains.

Research student supervision

Main supervision

Other supervision

Publications

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Number of items: 63.

Article

(2022) Telos, 2022(198), pp. 9-22. ISSN (print) 0090-6514

(2022) Praktyka Teoretyczna(2(44)), pp. 73-86. ISSN (print) 2081-8130

(2021) Critical Inquiry, 47(S2), S13-S16. ISSN (print) 0093-1896

(2020) differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, 31(3), pp. 12-20. ISSN (print) 1040-7391

and Shread, Carolyn [Translator] (2018) Postmodern Culture, 29(1), ISSN (online) 1053-1920

(2017) SAQ : South Atlantic Quarterly, 116(1), pp. 39-53. ISSN (print) 0038-2876

(2016) Critical Inquiry, 43(1), pp. 200-206. ISSN (print) 0093-1896

(2016) Critical Inquiry, 43(1), pp. 84-109. ISSN (print) 0093-1896

(2015) Art Press(39), pp. 213-216. ISSN (print) 0245-5676

(2015) Critical Inquiry, ISSN (online) 1539-7858

and Wasserman, Dashiell [Translator] (2015) Oxford Literary Review, 37(1), pp. 25-44. ISSN (print) 0305-1498

(2015) Esprit(1), pp. 30-40. ISSN (print) 0014-0759

(2015) Chiasmi International, 17, pp. 41-52. ISSN (print) 1637-6757

(2014) 顿别(蝉)驳茅苍茅谤补迟颈辞苍蝉(21), pp. 29-42. ISSN (print) 1778-0845

(2014) Public, 25(50), pp. 35-42. ISSN (print) 0845-4450

(2014) The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 28(3), pp. 242-255. ISSN (print) 0891-625X

(2014) Representations, 127(1), pp. 98-106. ISSN (print) 0734-6018

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and Ziarek, Ewa Plonowska (2012) L'Esprit Createur: a critical quarterly of French literature, 52(3), pp. 11-25. ISSN (print) 0014-0767

(2011) Etudes: revue de culture contemporaine, 414(4), pp. 487-498. ISSN (print) 0014-1941

(2011) Inaesthetics(2), pp. 79-89.

(2010) Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal, 31(2), ISSN (print) 0093-4240

(2010) Papel Maquina: revista de cultura(5), pp. 31-36. ISSN (print) 0718-6576

(2009) Qui Parle, 17(2), pp. 111-122. ISSN (print) 1041-8385

and Vahanian, Noelle [Interviewer] (2008) Journal For Cultural And Religious Theory, 9(1), ISSN (online) 1530-5228

(2007) diacritics, 37(4), pp. 78-86. ISSN (print) 0300-7162

(2001) Radical philosophy(106), pp. 15-20. ISSN (print) 0300-211X

Book

(2019) New York : Columbia University Press. 224p. (The Wellek Library Lectures) ISBN 9780231187367 (In Press)

(2017) Paris, France : Presses Universitaires de France. 184p. ISBN 9782130796084

and Shread, Carolyn [Translator] (2016) Polity Books. 224p. ISBN 9780745691503

(2014) Paris, France : Les Presses Universitaires de France. 337p. ISBN 9782130630456

Johnston, Adrian and (2013) New York, U.S. : Columbia University Press. 304p. ISBN 9780231158312

and Shread, Carolyn [Translator] (2012) Cambridge, U.K. : Polity Books. 152p. ISBN 9780745652603

and Miller, Steven [Translator] (2012) Bronx, USA : Fordham University Press. 288p. ISBN 9780823239672

and Shread, Carolyn [Translator] (2011) Cambridge UK : Polity Books. 180p. ISBN 9780745651095

and Skafish, Peter [Translator] (2011) New York, U.S.A. : SUNY Press. 224p. (SUNY Series in Contemporary French Thought) ISBN 9781438439556

(2011) Santiago de Chile : Palinodia. 103p. (Archivo Feminista) ISBN 9789568438296

(2010) New York, U.S.A. : Columbia University Press. 96p. (Insurrections) ISBN 9780231145244

and Butler, Judith (2010) Paris, France : Bayard Jeunesse. 126p. ISBN 9782227481442

and Emmanuelli, Xavier (2009) Paris, France : Bayard Publishing. 250p. (Essais documents divers) ISBN 9782227479159

(2009) Paris, France : Hermann. ISBN 9782705667795

and Rand, Sebastian [Translator] (2008) New York, U.S. : Fordham University Press. (Perspectives in Continental Philosophy)

(2005) New York, U.S.A. : Routledge. 242p. ISBN 9780415287203

, Derrida, Jacques and Wills, David [Translator] (2004) Stanford, U.S. : Stanford University Press. 330p. ISBN 0804740410

Book Section

and (2022) In: UNSPECIFIED, (ed.) Afterlives : transcendentals, universals, others. Kingston upon Thames, U.K. : CRMEP Books. pp. 163-186. (CRMEP Books, 4) ISBN 9781999333782

(2022) In: Osborne, Peter, (ed.) Afterlives : transcendentals, universals, others. Kingston upon Thames, U.K. : CRMEP Books. pp. 146-162. (CRMEP Books, 4) ISBN 9781999333782

(2022) In: Osborne, Peter, (ed.) Afterlives : transcendentals, universals, others. Kingston upon Thames, U.K. : CRMEP Books. pp. 133-145. (CRMEP Books, 4) ISBN 9781999333782

(2018) In: Sharvit, Gilad and Feldman, Karen S., (eds.) Freud and monotheism : Moses and the violent origins of religion. New York, U.S. : Fordham University Press. pp. 177-198. ISBN 9780823280025

(2017) In: Gabriel, Markus and Rasmussen, Anders Moe, (eds.) German idealism today. Berlin, Germany : Walter de Gruyter. pp. 189-202. ISBN 9783110500288

(2017) In: Street, Anna , Alliot, Julien and Pauker, Magnolia, (eds.) Inter views in performance philosophy: crossings and conversations. London, U.K. : Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 127-138. (Performance philosophy) ISBN 9781349951918

(2017) In: Morgan, Anthony, (ed.) The Kantian catastrophe? : conversations on finitude and the limits of philosophy. Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, U.K. : Bigg Books. pp. 239-252. ISBN 9781999841300

(2013) In: Johnston, Adrian and Malabou, Catherine, (eds.) Self and emotional life: philosophy, psychoanalysis, and neuroscience. New York, U.S. : Columbia University Press. pp. 1-72. ISBN 9780231158312

(2012) In: Cohen, Tom, (ed.) Telemorphosis: Theory in the Era of Climate Change. Michigan, U.S.A. : Open Humanities Press. pp. 226-238. (Critical Climate Change, 1) ISBN 9781607852377

(2011) In: Zizek, Slavoj , Crockett, Clayton and Davis, Creston, (eds.) Hegel & the Infinite: Religion, Politics And Dialectic. New York, U.S.A. : Columbia University Press. pp. 19-30. (Insurrections) ISBN 9780231143356

Butler, Judith and (2011) In: Baur, Michael and Houlgate, Stephen, (eds.) A companion to Hegel. Oxford, U.K. : Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 611-640. ISBN 140517076X

(2010) In: Fleischer, Alain, (ed.) Vitesses Limites. Paris, France : Seuil. (Le genre humain, (49)) ISSN (print) 0293-0277 ISBN 9782021038200

(2010) In: Prochiantz, Alain, (ed.) Darwin: 200 ans. Paris, France : Odile Jacob - College de France. pp. 227-242. (Travaux du College de France) ISBN 9782738125224

(2010) In: Magistretti, Pierre and Ansermet, Francois, (eds.) Neurosciences et psychanalyse: une rencontre autour de la singularite. Paris, France : Odile Jacob. pp. 51-72. (College de France) ISBN 9782738124159

(2009) In: Pontbriand, Chantal, (ed.) Harun Farocki/Rodney Graham. Paris, France : Blackjack editions. ISBN 9782918063032

(2009) In: Pornschlegel, Clemens and Stingelin, Martin, (eds.) Nietzsche und Frankreich. Berlin, Germany : Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 9783110193312

(2009) In: Bernard, Christian and Davila, Thierry, (eds.) Claude Leveque. Paris, France : Flammarion. pp. 126-133. ISBN 9782080301277

, Carlisle, Clare [Translator] and Sinclair, Mark (2008) In: Ravaisson, Felix , Carlisle, Clare and Sinclair, Mark, (eds.) Of Habit. London : Continuum International Publishing Group. ISBN 9781847061980

Moving Image/Broadcast

[Interviewee], Deloche, Alain [Interviewee] and Lefay, Philippe [Interviewer] (2017) (Online Interview). (Des mots De Minuit)

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