Catherine Malabou’s Hegel: One or several plasticities?
Through an original and extraordinarily fruitful reading of the Hegelian conception of negativity, Catherine Malabou developed the concept of plasticity which she keeps working on as one of her cardinal concepts even to this day. Engaging in the problematic of unity in Hegel, the paper take...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | deu |
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Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, Belgrade
2015-01-01
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| Series: | Filozofija i Društvo |
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| Online Access: | http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0353-5738/2015/0353-57381504813M.pdf |
| Summary: | Through an original and extraordinarily fruitful reading of the Hegelian
conception of negativity, Catherine Malabou developed the concept of
plasticity which she keeps working on as one of her cardinal concepts even to
this day. Engaging in the problematic of unity in Hegel, the paper takes on
the task of trying to answer the question whether plasticity is one or are
there several plasticities. The author argues that one must be careful not to
reduce the inherent multiple of plasticity to a single plasticity which
becomes plasticity par excellence: the plasticity of plastic explosion, of an
abrupt and absolute break, to be distinguished from a creative or productive
plasticity of habit. Malabou claimed that Hegel was - contrary to what Deleuz
read in him - a philosopher of conceptual multitude as a multitude which
cannot be reduced to only one image, the image of unity. If this is true,
then the concept of plasticity itself with which she grasped the essence of
Hegel’s dialectics, should be understood at least as a “unity in conflict”,
if not as an inorganic, inhomogeneous, composed unity - and perhaps even as a
unity of the pack. |
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| ISSN: | 0353-5738 2334-8577 |