{"product_id":"changing-difference-hardback-9780745651088","title":"Changing Difference (Hardback) 9780745651088","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eChanging Difference\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eCatherine Malabou (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780745651088, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 12 August 2011\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e180 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.4 x 14.5 x 1.9 cm, 0.345 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Complex and suggestive … Malabou's concept of plasticity has considerable potential to advance our thinking about gender and essentialism.\"\u003cbr\u003ehttp:\/\/blogs.lse.ac.uk\/lsereviewofbooks\/2012\/05\/15\/book-review-changing-difference-catherine-malabou\/\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eLSE Review of Books\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Confronting the current anti-essentialist \u003ci\u003edoxa\u003c\/i\u003e, Malabou claims for woman an essence that is never more itself than when it escapes its own clutches. This essentialism is not merely tactical or pragmatic, it is a bold philosophical position that gives back to feminism its prematurely sacrificed reason to be. A rare book, one of the few in history, in which philosophy rises to the challenges posed by sexual difference.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eProfessor Joan Copjec, University of Buffalo\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eChanging Difference\u003c\/i\u003e will introduce many new readers to the remarkable work of Catherine Malabou. It extends the profound philosophical iconoclasm of her readings of Derrida, Hegel and Heidegger and her emergent thought of plasticity to an encounter with queer and gender theory on the question of ontological and sexual difference. Yet it is above all a passionate and inspiring meditation on 'what, for a woman, is the life of a philosopher'.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eProfessor Howard Caygill, Kingston University London\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eTranslated by CAROLYN SHREAD\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e   \u003cp\u003eIn 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 herself in any other way than in terms of the violence done to her. Violence alone confers her being - whether it is domestic and social violence or theoretical violence. The critique of ‘essentialism' (i.e. there is no specifically feminine essence) proposed by both gender theory and deconstruction is just one more twist in the ontological negation of the feminine.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContrary to all expectations, however, this ever more radical hollowing out of woman within intellectual movements supposed to protect her, this assimilation of woman to a ‘being nothing', clears the way for a new beginning. Let us now assume the thought of ‘woman' as an empty but resistant essence, an essence that is resistant precisely because it is empty, a resistance that strikes down the impossibility of its own disappearance once and for all. To ask what remains of woman after the sacrifice of her being is to signal a new era in the feminist struggle, changing the terms of the battle to go beyond both essentialism and anti-essentialism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn this path-breaking work Catherine Malabou begins with philosophy, asking: what is the life of a woman philosopher?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eTranslator's Preface\u003cbr\u003eInsert\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction \u003cbr\u003eThe Meaning of the \"Feminine\" \u003cbr\u003eAdmiring the Wonders of Difference \u003cbr\u003eWhy the \"Feminine\"? Isn't the privilege of the feminine \u003cbr\u003edetermined by a particular situation of \"woman\"?\u003cbr\u003eThe Vulva's Schema \u003cbr\u003eThe Dangers of Deneutralizing Difference, or the \u003cbr\u003eAmbivalence of the Feminine \u003cbr\u003eThe Neuter and Evil\u003cbr\u003eGrammatology and Plasticity \u003cbr\u003eThe Phoenix, The Spider and The Salamander \u003cbr\u003eWoman's Possibility, Philosophy's Impossibility\u003cbr\u003eActing As If \u003cbr\u003eActing Together \u003cbr\u003eActing Without\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Society \u0026amp; culture: general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Society \u0026amp; culture: general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Society%20\u0026amp;%20culture:%20general%20%5BJF%5D%22\"\u003eJF\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52407321395480,"sku":"9780745651088","price":38.66,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9780745651088.jpg?v=1784161521","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/changing-difference-hardback-9780745651088","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}