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Catherine Malabou Quotes on Mind

Catherine Malabou is a French philosopher, a former student of Jacques Derrida, and the leading thinker of plasticity in contemporary philosophy. This page collects quotes attributed to Catherine Malabou on the topic of mind, drawn from across the philosopher's works.

Quotes

  • Attributed to Catherine Malabou:

    “Plasticity is the capacity to give and to receive form, and also to annihilate form.”

  • Attributed to Catherine Malabou:

    “There is no thinking that does not bear within it the possibility of its own destruction.”

  • Attributed to Catherine Malabou:

    “What should we do so that consciousness of the brain does not coincide with the spirit of capitalism?”

  • Attributed to Catherine Malabou:

    “Identity resists its own occurrence to the very extent that it forms it.”