Plasticity at the Dusk of Writing: Dialectic, Destruction, Deconstruction

by Clayton Crockett and Catherine Malabou

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231145241
• ISBN13: 9780231145244
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.7" x 8.3"