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Formations

By (author) Catherine Malabou, Edited and translated by Tyler M. Williams, Edited and translated by D. J. S. Cross, Introduction by Adrian Johnston

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Catherine Malabouâ€™s elaboration of the concept of plasticity has made her one of the most innovative philosophers working today. Formations collects eighteen of Malabouâ€™s early writings, spanning 1986 to 2003, within which her initial articulations of plasticity take shape. Though Malabou might be most famous for bringing neurobiological discourse into conversation with continental philosophy, she has always maintained, as the essays in Formation make clear, that ""plasticity"" circulates dynamically within the history of philosophy. Across readings of Hegel, Marx, Derrida, Rousseau, Heidegger, Ricoeur, Plato, Aristotle, and many others, these essays highlight the deep entrenchment of plasticity within the history of philosophy. Formations puts on full display Malabouâ€™s associations with deconstruction, her negotiations with structuralism, her interdisciplinary investments in philosophical calibrations of literature, and the unique form of dialectics that will shape her later thought. A critical introduction by Adrian Johnston situates these essays within the contexts of French Hegelianism and Marxism, showing both the continuity of these early essays with Malabouâ€™s later work as well as their singular contributions to the development of these still-relevant critical fields. An afterword by Malabou herself offers a biographical and bibliographic retrospective to these essays. Never just an archive of precursory traces of a later project, Formations exhibits the plastic metamorphosis of Malabouâ€™s own thought by revealing any oeuvre, including any translation or editorial arrangement of that oeuvre, to be a product constituted by its ongoing formations. In this sense, the title reflects one of the most enduring features of Malabouâ€™s thought: ""formation"" stands doubly for the rigidity of an identity and the processes by which that identity changes and takes shape.