Plasticity: The Promise of Explosion

Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part One: Philosophical Heritages
1 An Eye on the Edge of Discourse: Speech, Vision, Idea
2 Following Generation: Biological and Poetic Cloning
3 Philosophy in Erection: Derrida’s Columns
4 The Possibility of the Worst: On Faith and Knowledge
5 Before and Above: Spinoza and Symbolic Necessity
6 Can We Relinquish the Transcendental?
7 Is Science the Subject of Philosophy? Miller, Badiou and Derrida Respond
Part Two: Masks
8 The Crowd: Figuring the Democracy to Come
9 Life and Prison
10 Odysseus’s Changed Soul: A Contemporary Reading of the Myth of Er
11 Epigenesis of the Text: New Paths in Biology and Hermeneutics
12 Reading Lázló Földényi’s ‘Dostoyevsky Reads Hegel in Siberia and Bursts into Tears’
13 Philosophy and the Outside: Foucault and Decolonial Thinking
Part Three: Psyches, Brains, Cells
14 The Brain of History, or, The Mentality of the Anthropocene
15 Whither Materialism? Althusser/Darwin
16 Philosophy and Anarchism: Alternative or Dilemma?
17 One Life Only: Biological Resistance, Political Resistance
18 Philosophers, Biologists: Some More Effort if You Wish to Become Revolutionaries!
19 How is Subjectivity Undergoing Deconstruction Today? Philosophy, Auto-Hetero-Affection and Neurobiological Emotion
20 Floating Signifiers Revisited: Poststructuralism Meets Neurolinguistics
Part Four: Destructive Forms
21 Is Retreat a Metaphor?
22 Plasticity and Elasticity in Freud’s Beyond the Pleasure Principle
23 Are There Still Traces? Memory and the Obsolescence of the Paradigm of Inscription
24 Phantom Limbs and Plasticity: Merleau-Ponty and Current Neurobiology
25 The Example of Plasticity
Works Cited
Index