Many contemporary philosophers - including Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, and Giorgio Agamben - ascribe an ethical or political value to anarchy, but none ever called themselves an "anarchist." It is…

In the post-feminist age the fact that ‘woman’ finds herself deprived of her ‘essence’ only confirms, paradoxically, a very ancient state of affairs: ‘woman’ has never been able to define…

The contributors to Plastic Materialities explore the ways in which Catherine Malabou’s new materialism and concept of plasticity can provide new insights into issues of race, colonialism, subjectivity, science, social…

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 contemporary continental philosophy making a break with Kant? The structures of knowledge, taken for granted since Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason, are now being called into question: the finitude…

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…

The simplicityof gentleness is misleading. It is an active passivity that may become anextraordinary force of symbolic resistance and, as such, become central to bothethics and politics. Gentleness is a…

What is the future of Continental philosophy of religion? This title includes essays that address the new thinkers and movements that have gained prominence since the generation of Derrida, Deleuze…