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Catherine Malabou 'On Wonder'
by: daniele
Thursday 24 April
Catherine Malabou
"On Wonder : From the Passionate Soul to the Emotional Brain : a New Deconstruction of Auto-affection"
Small Cinema, 5pm.
Hosted by InC and the Graduate School.
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The issue I would like to address here is the following : is it possible
to develop a philosophical approach of affects which would not determine
them to be simple consequences of an originary auto-affection? Is the way
in which the subject affects itself the irretrievable foundation or basis
of all affects? In a word, can there be affects without auto-affection?
Starting with the definition of affects in general and of wonder in
particular in Descartes and Spinoza, I will look into contemporary
philosophical interpretations of these definitions (Derrida and Deleuze),
and see how the current neurobiological point of view challenges them in displacing the relationship between auto- and heteroaffection.
-Deleuze, Gilles, Expressionism in Philosophy : Spinoza, tr. Martin Joughin, Zone Books, 1990.
-Deleuze, Gilles, Cinema 1 : The Movement Image, tr. Hugh Tomlinson, Barabra Habberjam, University of Minnesota Press, 1986.
-Deleuze, Gilles, Lectures on Spinoza, BDSweb: University courses: http://bdsweb.tripod.com/en/5-courses.htm
-Derrida, Jacques, On Touching, Jean-Luc Nancy, tr. Christine Irrizari, Stanford University Press, 2005.
-Descartes, René, The Passions of the Soul, in The Philosophical Writings
of Descartes. 3 vols. (Cambridge), tr. John Cottingham, Robert Stoothoff, Dugald Murdoch, 1985. Vol. 1
-Spinoza, Baruch, The Ethics, tr. Samuel Shirley, Indianapolis/Cambridge :
Hackett Publishing Company, 1992. Book III.
-Damasio, Antonio, Descartes' Error : Emotions, Reason, and the Human Brain, New York : Grosset/Putnam, 1994 ; Harper-Collins, 1995.
-Damasio, Antonio, Looking for Spinoza, Joy, Sorrow and the Feeling Brain,
Harcourt, 2003.
Posted on: Tuesday April 22 2008 ______________________________________
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Catherine Malabou 'On Wonder'
by: daniele
Thursday 24 April
Catherine Malabou
"On Wonder : From the Passionate Soul to the Emotional Brain : a New Deconstruction of Auto-affection"
Small Cinema, 5pm.
Hosted by InC and the Graduate School.
***************************
The issue I would like to address here is the following : is it possible
to develop a philosophical approach of affects which would not determine
them to be simple consequences of an originary auto-affection? Is the way
in which the subject affects itself the irretrievable foundation or basis
of all affects? In a word, can there be affects without auto-affection?
Starting with the definition of affects in general and of wonder in
particular in Descartes and Spinoza, I will look into contemporary
philosophical interpretations of these definitions (Derrida and Deleuze),
and see how the current neurobiological point of view challenges them in displacing the relationship between auto- and heteroaffection.
-Deleuze, Gilles, Expressionism in Philosophy : Spinoza, tr. Martin Joughin, Zone Books, 1990.
-Deleuze, Gilles, Cinema 1 : The Movement Image, tr. Hugh Tomlinson, Barabra Habberjam, University of Minnesota Press, 1986.
-Deleuze, Gilles, Lectures on Spinoza, BDSweb: University courses: http://bdsweb.tripod.com/en/5-courses.htm
-Derrida, Jacques, On Touching, Jean-Luc Nancy, tr. Christine Irrizari, Stanford University Press, 2005.
-Descartes, René, The Passions of the Soul, in The Philosophical Writings
of Descartes. 3 vols. (Cambridge), tr. John Cottingham, Robert Stoothoff, Dugald Murdoch, 1985. Vol. 1
-Spinoza, Baruch, The Ethics, tr. Samuel Shirley, Indianapolis/Cambridge :
Hackett Publishing Company, 1992. Book III.
-Damasio, Antonio, Descartes' Error : Emotions, Reason, and the Human Brain, New York : Grosset/Putnam, 1994 ; Harper-Collins, 1995.
-Damasio, Antonio, Looking for Spinoza, Joy, Sorrow and the Feeling Brain,
Harcourt, 2003.
Posted on: Tuesday April 22 2008 ______________________________________
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