Philosophy of change in Catherine Malabou and in Martin Heidegger

The fantastic of childhood or the childhood of the fantastic

Bibliographic Data

ID8858738
AuthorsAnna Kouppanou (0000-0001-9679-9862, Cyprus Pedagogical Institute, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume53
Issue10
Pages984-997
Publication date2020-01-23
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueEducational Philosophy and Theory (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0013-1857 • E-ISSN: 1469-5812
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00131857.2019.1707657
OpenAlexW3001068760
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited16

This paper is concerned with Catherine Malabou’s reading of Heidegger’s forgotten triad of change; indeed, in connection to her own notion of the ‘plasticity of meaning’. The paper focuses on the emergence of meaning, on its figuration, and on the moment during which a new image of meaning comes to be seen. In light of this pursuit, the paper will attest to change and to the plasticity of meaning through different images; the first being the plasticity of reading; the second, the plasticity of metaphysics; and third, the plasticity of the ‘motor scheme’ – and especially that of writing. All these cases will be tied together through the notion of the fantastic; namely, through that which instantiates the figuration of meaning, its formation into an image and its visibility. After considering these plastic instances – and revealing some unimagined aspects of the fantastic, like the process of material-metaphoricity, I will relate the plasticity of meaning to the notion of childhood and to the ways through which this notion can be reconfigured

Aesthetics · Epistemology · Linguistics · Meaning (existential · Metaphysics · Plasticity · Psychoanalysis · Reading (process · Triad (sociology · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Psychology

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