Catherine Malabou Quotes
Catherine Malabou is a French philosopher, a former student of Jacques Derrida, and the leading thinker of plasticity in contemporary philosophy. From The Future of Hegel onward she has argued that Hegel's dialectic is best understood through the concept of plasticity, the simultaneous capacity to give and to receive form and to resist deformation. The quotes below are attributed to Catherine Malabou, organized by topic.
Catherine Malabou on Mind
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Attributed to Catherine Malabou:
“Plasticity is the capacity to give and to receive form, and also to annihilate form.”
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Attributed to Catherine Malabou:
“There is no thinking that does not bear within it the possibility of its own destruction.”
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Attributed to Catherine Malabou:
“Identity resists its own occurrence to the very extent that it forms it.”
Catherine Malabou on Politics
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Attributed to Catherine Malabou:
“What should we do so that consciousness of the brain does not coincide with the spirit of capitalism?”
Catherine Malabou on Truth
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Attributed to Catherine Malabou:
“The form is what changes within form itself.”