The Ontology of the Accident: An Essay on Destructive Plasticity

by Catherine Malabou

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In the usual order of things, lives run their course and eventually one becomes who one is. Bodily and psychic transformations do nothing but reinforce the permanence of identity. But as a result of serious trauma, or sometimes for no reason at all, a subject's history splits and a new, unprecedented persona comes to live with the former person - an unrecognizable persona whose present comes from no past and whose future harbors nothing to come; an...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0745652611

ISBN13:9780745652610

Release Date:July 2012

Publisher:Polity Press

Length:112 Pages

Weight:0.34 lbs.

Dimensions:0.4" x 4.8" x 7.3"

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