Self and Emotional Life: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and Neuroscience

by Adrian Johnston and Catherine Malabou

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231158300
• ISBN13: 9780231158305
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher