Contents

pp v-vi

Acknowledgements

pp vii-viii

Introduction

pp 1-12

Part One - Philosophical Heritages

pp 13-14

1 - An Eye on the Edge of Discourse: Speech, Vision, Idea

pp 15-26

2 - Following Generation: Biological and Poetic Cloning

pp 27-38

3 - Philosophy in Erection: Derrida’s Columns

pp 39-48

4 - The Possibility of the Worst: On Faith and Knowledge

pp 49-62

5 - Before and Above: Spinoza and Symbolic Necessity

pp 63-88

6 - Can We Relinquish the Transcendental?

pp 89-100

7 - Is Science the Subject of Philosophy? Miller, Badiou and Derrida Respond

pp 101-112

Part Two - Masks

pp 113-114

8 - The Crowd: Figuring the Democracy to Come

pp 115-130

9 - Life and Prison

pp 131-140

10 - Odysseus’s Changed Soul: A Contemporary Reading of the Myth of Er

pp 141-156

11 - Epigenesis of the Text: New Paths in Biology and Hermeneutics

pp 157-166

12 - Reading Lázló Földényi’s ‘Dostoyevsky Reads Hegel in Siberia and Bursts into Tears’

pp 167-178

13 - Philosophy and the Outside: Foucault and Decolonial Thinking

pp 179-186

Part Three - Psyches, Brains, Cells

pp 187-188

14 - The Brain of History, or, The Mentality of the Anthropocene

pp 189-202

15 - Whither Materialism? Althusser/Darwin

pp 203-214

16 - Philosophy and Anarchism: Alternative or Dilemma?

pp 215-226

17 - One Life Only: Biological Resistance, Political Resistance

pp 227-236

18 - Philosophers, Biologists: Some More Effort if You Wish to Become Revolutionaries!

pp 237-242

19 - How is Subjectivity Undergoing Deconstruction Today? Philosophy, Auto-Hetero-Affection and Neurobiological Emotion

pp 243-252

20 - Floating Signifiers Revisited: Poststructuralism Meets Neurolinguistics

pp 253-262

Part Four - Destructive Forms

pp 263-264

21 - Is Retreat a Metaphor?

pp 265-274

22 - Plasticity and Elasticity in Freud’s Beyond the Pleasure Principle

pp 275-286