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Ms Catherine Malabou

Kingston School of Art
Department of Humanities
School of Creative and Cultural Industries
Penrhyn Road

Visiting Professor in Modern European Philosophy

[email protected]

About

After studying at 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 University in 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.

Qualifications

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

Domains

Publications

Effective altruism in between right-wing and left-wing anarchisms

Malabou, Catherine, 2022, Telos (2022), 198 pp 9-22, Published

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Nowe kierunki w heglizmie. Rozmowa z Catherine Malabou = Interview with Catherine Malabou: new directions in Hegelianism

Malabou, Catherine, 2022, Praktyka Teoretyczna, 2(44) pp 73-86, Published

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To quarantine from quarantine: Rousseau, Robinson Crusoe, and ‟I”

Malabou, Catherine, 2021, Critical Inquiry (47), S2, Published

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Earning to give

Malabou, Catherine, 2020, differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies (31), 3 pp 12-20, Published

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The animal rationale that is Jacques Derrida: a response to "Of Biodeconstruction"

Malabou, Catherine and Shread, Carolyn, 2019, Postmodern Culture (29), 1, Published

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The brain of history or the mentality of the Anthropocene

Malabou, Catherine, 2017, Chemical Communications (116), 1 pp 39-53, Published

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Philosophers, Biologists, Philosophers, Biologists: Some More Effort If You Wish to Become Revolutionaries! Response to Norman MacLeod

Malabou, Catherine, 2016, Critical Inquiry (43), 1 pp 200-206, Published

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Before and above: Spinoza and symbolic necessity

Malabou, Catherine, 2016, Critical Inquiry (43), 1 pp 84-109, Published

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L'intelligence des ordinateurs

Malabou, Catherine, 2015, Art Press, 39 pp 213-216, Published

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One life only: Biological resistance, political resistance

Malabou, Catherine, 2015, Critical Inquiry, Published

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The Crowd

Malabou, Catherine and Wasserman, Dashiell, 2015, Oxford Literary Review (37), 1 pp 25-44, E-pub ahead of print

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Phantom limbs and plasticity: Merleau-Ponty and current neurobiology

Malabou, Catherine, 2015, Chiasmi International (17) pp 41-52, Published

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Une seule vie: resistance biologique, resistance politique

Malabou, Catherine, 2015, Esprit, 1 pp 30-40, Published

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Sujet: femme

Malabou, Catherine, 2014, De(s)générations, 21 pp 29-42, Published

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Is retreat a metaphor?

Malabou, Catherine, 2014, Journal of Friction and Wear (25), 50 pp 35-42, Published

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Can we relinquish the transcendental?

Malabou, Catherine, 2014, The Journal of Speculative Philosophy (28), 3 pp 242-255, Published

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The king's two (biopolitical) bodies

Malabou, Catherine, 2014, Representations (127), 1 pp 98-106, Published

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Education should be a right for all

Dixon, Paul, Favretto, Ilaria, Finn, Peter, Smart, Jackie, Spencer, Philip, Stockhammer, Engelbert, Stuart, John, Suess, Eleanor, Giaxoglou, Korina, Goldsmith, Carlie, Hallward, Peter, Hawkins, Sue, Swift, Allan, Upstone, Sara, Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic, Wells, Julian, Wilson, Scott, Haywood, Peter, Higginbottom, Andrew, Ichijo, Atsuko, Isaac, Marina, Jensen, Meg, Kayyali, Reem, Kettyle, Ann, Lambrou, Marina, Latimer, Amanda, Linton, Marisa, Lipsedge, Karen, Malabou, Catherine, O Maoilearca, John, McQuillan, Martin, Micklethwaite, Paul, Morgan Wortham, Simon, O'Brien, Catherine, Blackburn, Robert, Botting, Fred, Brady, Mary, Osborne, Peter, Pinnock, Winsome, Piper, Jason, Choat, Simon, Chu, Jonathan, Cinpoes, Radu, Coultas, Valerie, Dines, Martin, Caygill, Howard, Chadwick, Howard, Chanter, Tina, Roberts, Mike, Rogers, David, Sandford, Stella, Searby, Michael, Siddiki, Jalal Uddin, Ponto, Maria, Raphael, Sam, Reid, Trish, Agnew, Eadaoin, Alliez, Eric and Auerbach, Paul, 2014, The Guardian, Published

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Negativity, unhappiness or Felicity: on Irigaray's dialectical culture of sexual difference

Malabou, Catherine and Ziarek, Ewa Plonowska, 2012, L'Esprit Createur: a critical quarterly of French literature (52), 3 pp 11-25, Published

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Souffrance cerebrale, souffrance psychique et plasticite

Malabou, Catherine, 2011, Etudes: revue de culture contemporaine (414), 4 pp 487-498, Published

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Like a sleeping animal: philosophy between presence and absence

Malabou, Catherine, 2011, Centaurus, 2 pp 79-89, Published

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Modification in being and time, or the form of difference

Malabou, Catherine, 2010, Vital and Health Statistics, Series 1: Programs and Collection Procedures (31), 2, Published

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Qué es formar el cuerpo?

Malabou, Catherine, 2010, Papel Maquina: revista de cultura, 5 pp 31-36, Published

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How is subjectivity undergoing deconstruction today? Philosophy, auto-hetero-affection, and neurobiological emotion

Malabou, Catherine, 2009, Qui Parle (17), 2 pp 111-122, Published

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A Conversation With Catherine Malabou

Malabou, Catherine and Vahanian, Noelle, 2008, Journal For Cultural And Religious Theory (9), 1, Published

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Plasticity and elasticity in Freud's beyond the pleasure principle

Malabou, Catherine, 2007, Diacritics (37), 4 pp 78-86, Published

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History and the process of mourning in Hegel and Freud

Malabou, Catherine, 2001, Radical Philosophy, 106 pp 15-20, Published

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Morphing intelligence: from IQ measurement to artificial brains

Malabou, Catherine (2019). New York: (Columbia University Press) [Published]

Metamorphoses de l'intelligence: que faire de leur cerveau bleu?

Malabou, Catherine (2017). Paris, France: [Published]

Before tomorrow: epigenesis and rationality

Malabou, Catherine and Shread, Carolyn (2016). [Published]

Avant demain: épigenèse et rationalité

Malabou, Catherine (2014). Paris, France: [Published]

Self and emotional life: philosophy, psychoanalysis, and neuroscience

Johnston, Adrian and Malabou, Catherine (2013). New York, U.S.: [Published]

Ontology of the accident: an essay on destructive plasticity

Shread, Carolyn and Malabou, Catherine (2012). Cambridge, U.K.: [Published]

The new wounded, from neurosis to brain damage

Miller, Steven and Malabou, Catherine (2012). Bronx, USA: [Published]

Changing Difference, The Feminine And The Question Of Philosophy

Malabou, Catherine and Shread, Carolyn (2011). Cambridge UK: [Published]

La Plasticidad en Espera

Malabou, Catherine (2011). Santiago de Chile: (Palinodia) [Published]

The Heidegger change. On the fantastic in philosophy

Skafish, Peter and Malabou, Catherine (2011). New York, U.S.A.: (SUNY Press) [Published]

Plasticity at the dusk of writing: dialectic, destruction, deconstruction

Malabou, Catherine (2010). New York, U.S.A.: (Columbia University Press) [Published]

Sois mon corps: Une lecture contemporaine de la domination et de la servitude chez Hegel

Malabou, Catherine and Butler, Judith (2010). Paris, France: [Published]

La chambre du milieu: de Hegel aux neurosciences

Malabou, Catherine (2009). Paris, France: [Published]

La Grande Exclusion. L'Urgence Sociale: Therapeutique et Symptomes

Malabou, Catherine and Emmanuelli, Xavier (2009). Paris, France: (Bayard Publishing) [Published]

What should we do with our brain ?

Rand, Sebastian and Malabou, Catherine (2008). New York, U.S.: (Fordham University Press) [Published]

The future of Hegel: plasticity, temporality, and dialectic

Malabou, Catherine (2005). New York, U.S.A.: [Published]

Counterpath: traveling with Jacques Derrida

Wills, David, Malabou, Catherine and Derrida, Jacques (2004). Stanford, U.S.: [Published]

Anarchism, philosophy and the state today: a conversation

Balibar, Étienne and Malabou, Catherine (2022). Kingston upon Thames, U.K.: CRMEP Books pp 163-186 [Published]

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Cynicism and anarchism in Foucault's last seminars

Malabou, Catherine (2022). In: Osborne, Peter, (eds.), Kingston upon Thames, U.K.: CRMEP Books pp 146-162 [Published]

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Otherness as a kind of being: a reading of Plato‘s Sophist

Malabou, Catherine (2022). In: Osborne, Peter, (eds.), Kingston upon Thames, U.K.: CRMEP Books pp 133-145 [Published]

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Is psychic phylogenesis only a phantasy? New biological developments in trauma inheritance

Malabou, Catherine (2018). In: Sharvit, Gilad, Feldman, Karen S., (eds.), New York, U.S.: pp 177-198 [Published]

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"Idealism": a new name for metaphysics : Hegel and Heidegger on a priori synthesis

Malabou, Catherine (2017). In: Gabriel, Markus, Rasmussen, Anders Moe, (eds.), Berlin, Germany: pp 189-202 [Published]

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Power and performance at play: a question of life or death

Malabou, Catherine (2017). In: Street, Anna, Alliot, Julien, Pauker, Magnolia, (eds.), London, U.K.: Palgrave Macmillan pp 127-138 [Published]

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Transcendental epigenesis

Malabou, Catherine (2017). In: Morgan, Anthony, (eds.), Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, U.K.: pp 239-252 [Published]

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Go wonder: subjectivity and affects in neurobiological times

Malabou, Catherine (2013). In: Johnston, Adrian, Malabou, Catherine, (eds.), New York, U.S.: pp 1-72 [Published]

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Post-trauma: towards a new definition?

Malabou, Catherine (2012). In: Cohen, Tom, (eds.), Michigan, U.S.A.: Open Humanities Press pp 226-238 [Published]

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Is confession the accomplishment of recognition? Rousseau and the unthought of religion in The Phenomenology Of Spirit

Malabou, Catherine (2011). In: Zizek, Slavoj, Crockett, Clayton, Davis, Creston, (eds.), New York, U.S.A.: Columbia University Press pp 19-30 [Published]

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You be my body for me: body, shape, and plasticity in Hegel's Phenomenology Of Spirit

Butler, Judith and Malabou, Catherine (2011). In: Baur, Michael, Houlgate, Stephen, (eds.), Oxford, U.K.: pp 611-640 [Published]

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De la transparence cerebrale comme eclipse du temps

Malabou, Catherine (2010). In: Fleischer, Alain, (eds.), Paris, France: Seuil [Published]

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Le destin social de la selection naturelle: comment choisir sans intention d'eliminer ?

Malabou, Catherine (2010). In: Prochiantz, Alain, (eds.), Paris, France: Odile Jacob - College de France pp 227-242 [Published]

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Trace psychique et trace synaptique parlent-elles la meme langue?

Malabou, Catherine (2010). In: Magistretti, Pierre, Ansermet, Francois, (eds.), Paris, France: Odile Jacob pp 51-72 [Published]

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Bouche cousue: de l'homeostasie [With sealed lips. On homeostasis]

Malabou, Catherine (2009). In: Pontbriand, Chantal, (eds.), Paris, France: [Published]

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L'eternel retour et le fantome de la difference

Malabou, Catherine (2009). In: Pornschlegel, Clemens, Stingelin, Martin, (eds.), Berlin, Germany: [Published]

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Swan lake: bleu comme les neurones

Malabou, Catherine (2009). In: Bernard, Christian, Davila, Thierry, (eds.), Paris, France: pp 126-133 [Published]

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Addiction and Grace Preface to Felix Ravaisson's Of Habit

Malabou, Catherine, Carlisle, Clare and Sinclair, Mark (2008). In: Ravaisson, Felix, Carlisle, Clare, Sinclair, Mark, (eds.), London: [Published]

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