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Self and Emotional Life: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and Neuroscience (Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture) by Johnston, Adrian, Malabou, Catherine is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Adrian Johnston And Catherine Malabou Defy Theoretical Humanities' Deeply-entrenched Resistance To Engagements With The Life Sciences. Rather Than Treat Biology And Its Branches As Hopelessly Reductive And Politically Suspect, They View Recent Advances In Neurobiology And Its Adjacent Scientific Fields As Providing Crucial Catalysts To A Radical Rethinking Of Subjectivity. Merging Three Distinct Disciplines -- European Philosophy From Descartes To The Present, Freudian-lacanian Psychoanalysis, And Affective Neuroscience -- Johnston And Malabou Triangulate The Emotional Life Of Affective Subjects As Conceptualized In Philosophy And Psychoanalysis With Neuroscience. Their Experiments Yield Different Outcomes. Johnston Finds Psychoanalysis And Neurobiology Have The Potential To Enrich Each Other, Though Affective Neuroscience Demands A Reconsideration Of Whether Affects Can Be Unconscious. Investigating This Vexed Issue Has Profound Implications For Theoretical And Practical Analysis, As Well As Philosophical Understandings Of The Emotions. Malabou Believes Scientific Explorations Of The Brain Seriously Problematize Established Notions Of Affective Subjectivity In Continental Philosop

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Author
Johnston, Adrian, Malabou, Catherine
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Published
2013
Language
EN
ISBN
9780231158305
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Science, Philosophy, Psychology
Rating
5 / 5 (5 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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