Plasticity and neoplasticity in Malabou's the future of Hegel: addressing the concept's ambiguity.
The influence of Catherine Malabou's concept of plasticity has grown considerably. However, recent commentaries increasingly trace disagreements in the literature to Malabou's own ambiguous uses of the concept. This paper weaves together these criticisms and places them in the Hegelian context out o...
| Publicado en: | Continental Philosophy Review Vol. 58; no. 3; pp. 531 - 550 |
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