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Considering solidarity and mutual aid at the intersection of political philosophy and biology, made more urgent by the COVID-19 crisis, this book is grounded in the work of Catherine Malabou and takes her theories in creative new directions.
List of contents
Chapter 1 Unchaining Solidarity, Mutual Aid and Anarchism - Dan Swain, Petr Urban, Catherine Malabou, and Petr Kouba
Chapter 2 Politics of Plasticity: Cooperation without Chains - Catherine Malabou
Part I 'An Internal Principle of Cooperation, Assistance and Repair' - Solidarity and Plasticity
Chapter 3 Solidarity as Necessity: Subject, Structure, Practices - Thomas Telios
Chapter 4 What Prevents Mutual Aid? On Trauma and Destructive Plasticity - Petr Kouba
Chapter 5 The Dynamics of Plasticity: Absolute Knowing and Sympoiesis - Rasmus Sandnes Haukedal
Chapter 6 Ethics of the Care for the Brain: Neuroplasticity with Stirner, Malabou, and Foucault - Tim Elmo Feiten
Chapter 7Individuation and Anarchy in Gilbert Simondon and Catherine Malabou - Arianne Conty
Part II 'The War of Each Against All Is Not the Law of Nature' - Mutual Aid, Anarchism and Evolutionary Biology
Chapter 8 The Anarchist Impulse: A Factor of Human and Non-Human Nature - Gearóid Brinn & Georgina Butterfield
Chapter 9 Mutual Aid Armat
About the author
Dan Swain is research fellow at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences and assistant professor at the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague. He is the author of None So Fit to Break the Chains: Marx’s Ethics of Self-Emancipation and Alienation: An Introduction to Marx’s Theory which was nominated for the Bread and Roses prize for radical publishing.Petr Urban is a senior researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences. His research focuses on political theory of care, applied ethics and phenomenology. His work has appeared in journals such as Frontiers in Psychology, Ethics and Social Welfare, Environmental Philosophy, Horizon: Studies in Phenomenology, Philosophies or Humana Mente. He is a co-editor of Care Ethics, Democratic Citizenship and the State, Unchaining Solidarity: On Mutual Aid and Anarchism with Catherine Malabou and Play and Democracy: Philosophical Perspectives.Catherine Malabou is professor of philosophy at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP) at Kingston University, at the European Graduate School, and in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of California Irvine, a position formerly held by Jacques Derrida. She is the author of many books, including The Future of Hegel: Plasticity, Temporality, and Dialectic and Morphing Intelligence, from IQ to IA.Petr Kouba is senior researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic. His publications include Margins of Phenomenology and The Phenomenon of Mental Disorder: Perspectives of Heidegger's Thought in Psychopathology.
Summary
The concept of mutual aid is central to the anarchist tradition, but also a source of controversy. This book’s intervention is to consider solidarity and mutual aid at the intersection of politics and biology, developing out of the work of Catherine Malabou.
