Böcker av Catherine Malabou

This book addresses the issue of trauma and psychic wounds to stage a confrontation between psychoanalysis and contemporary neurobiology. In so doing, it reevaluates the brain as an organ that is not separated from psychic life but rather appears as its very locus. A philosophical approach of the "new wounded" (brain lesion patients) forms the matter of the confrontation.

Neuroscience, in replacing the old model of the brain as a single centralized source of control, has emphasized 'plasticity,' the quality by which our brains develop and change throughout the course of our lives. This book develops a radical meaning for plasticity.

Published here in English for the first time, Catherine Malabou's groundbreaking book, is one of the most important recent books on Hegel. Seeking to restore Hegel's concepts of time and temporality The Future of Hegel is essential reading for