Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part One: Philosophical Heritages
6. 1 An Eye on the Edge of Discourse: Speech, Vision, Idea 15
7. 2 Following Generation: Biological and Poetic Cloning 27
8. 3 Philosophy in Erection: Derrida’s Columns 39
9. 4 The Possibility of the Worst: On Faith and Knowledge 49
10. 5 Before and Above: Spinoza and Symbolic Necessity 63
11. 6 Can We Relinquish the Transcendental? 89
12. 7 Is Science the Subject of Philosophy? Miller, Badiou and Derrida Respond 101
13. Part Two: Masks
14. 8 The Crowd: Figuring the Democracy to Come 115
15. 9 Life and Prison 131
16. 10 Odysseus’s Changed Soul: A Contemporary Reading of the Myth of Er 141
17. 11 Epigenesis of the Text: New Paths in Biology and Hermeneutics 157
18. 12 Reading Lázló Földényi’s ‘Dostoyevsky Reads Hegel in Siberia and Bursts into Tears’ 167
19. 13 Philosophy and the Outside: Foucault and Decolonial Thinking 179
20. Part Three: Psyches, Brains, Cells
21. 14 The Brain of History, or, The Mentality of the Anthropocene 189
22. 15 Whither Materialism? Althusser/Darwin 203
23. 16 Philosophy and Anarchism: Alternative or Dilemma? 215
24. 17 One Life Only: Biological Resistance, Political Resistance 227
25. 18 Philosophers, Biologists: Some More Effort if You Wish to Become Revolutionaries! 237
26. 19 How is Subjectivity Undergoing Deconstruction Today? Philosophy, Auto-Hetero-Affection and Neurobiological Emotion 243
27. 20 Floating Signifiers Revisited: Poststructuralism Meets Neurolinguistics 253
28. Part Four: Destructive Forms
29. 21 Is Retreat a Metaphor? 265
30. 22 Plasticity and Elasticity in Freud’s Beyond the Pleasure Principle 275
31. 23 Are There Still Traces? Memory and the Obsolescence of the Paradigm of Inscription 287
32. 24 Phantom Limbs and Plasticity: Merleau-Ponty and Current Neurobiology 297
33. 25 The Example of Plasticity 309
34. Works Cited 321
35. Index 332