The Ontology of the Accident: An Essay on Destructive Plasticity

by Catherine Malabou

Book Overview

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"