Catherine Malabou. The Sacralization of Life. 2012

Описание: ‪http://www.egs.edu/ Catherine Malabou, philosopher and author, talking about Giorgio Agamben's conception of the Homo sacer. In this lecture Catherine Malabou discusses the sacred as the inclusion of what is excluded, the relationship between the sacred and profane, the logic of sacrifice and overcoming the distinction between the biological and symbolic in relationship to Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben, Jacques Derrida, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Sigmund Freud, Georges Bataille, Friedrich Nietzsche and Martin Heidegger focusing on floating signifiers, the empty square, the living-dead man as a figure of the survivor, zoe, bios, Nazism, entropy, religious values, cerebral death, bare life, genetics and dasein. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe. 2012. Catherine Malabou.

Catherine Malabou, Ph.D., born in 1959, was a student at the École normal supérieure (ENS) and Sorbonne University in France. She wrote her dissertation on Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel under the direction of the French philosopher Jacques Derrida, completing it in 1994. The thesis was published in 1996 under the title L'Avenir de Hegel, plasticité, temporalité, dialectique (The Future of Hegel: Plasticity, Temporality, and Dialectic). Catherine Malabou has taught at Nanterre University in Paris, the University of California at Berkeley, the New School for Social Research in New York City and currently is a full-time professor at the Centre for Modern European Philosophy of Kingston in the United Kingdom. She also teaches an intensive summer seminar at the European Graduate School (EGS).

Catherine Malabou is a specialist of contemporary French and German philosophy, with a focus on Hegel and Heidegger. She is most famous for her concept of ontological "plasticity." Her work also incorporates neuroscience and neuro-psychoanalysis. Malabou has published many works including Voyager avec Jacques Derrida - La Contre-allée (1999, English publication in 2004 entitled Counterpath), Que faire de notre cerveau? (2004, English publication in 2008 entitled What Should We Do with Our Brain?), La Plasticité au soir de l'écriture : Dialectique, destruction, deconstruction (2005, English publication in 2009 entitled Plasticity at the Dusk of Writing: Dialectic, Destruction, Deconstruction), Changer de différence (2009, English publication in 2011 entitled Changing differences). More recently, Catherine Malabou published a book in French with Judith Butler entitled Sois mon corps (2010). She also manages a philosophy book series for the French publisher Éditions Léo Scheer.