04221nam 2200721 a 450 991078097180332120230120052906.00-8232-6060-71-282-69887-797866126988730-8232-2954-82027/heb08589(CKB)2520000000008082(EBL)3239488(SSID)ssj0000444681(PQKBManifestationID)11276357(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000444681(PQKBWorkID)10481374(PQKB)10549287(Au-PeEL)EBL3239488(CaPaEBR)ebr10365108(CaONFJC)MIL269887(OCoLC)727645664(Au-PeEL)EBL476607(MiAaPQ)EBC3239488(MiAaPQ)EBC476607(dli)HEB08589(MiU) MIU01100000000000000001050(EXLCZ)99252000000000808220080717d2008 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrWhat should we do with our brain?[electronic resource] /Catherine Malabou ; foreword by Marc Jeannerod ; translated by Sebastian Rand1st ed.New York Fordham University Press20081 online resource (118 p.)Perspectives in continental philosophyTranslated from the French.0-8232-2952-1 Includes bibliographical references (p. 83-94).""Contents""; ""Translator�s Note""; ""Foreword""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""What Should We Do with Our Brain?""; ""Introduction""; ""Plasticity�s Fields of Action""; ""The Central Power in Crisis""; ""��You Are Your Synapses��""; ""Conclusion: Toward a Biological Alter-globalism""; ""Notes""Recent neuroscience, in replacing the old model of the brain as a single centralized source of control, has emphasized ?plasticity,? the quality by which our brains develop and change throughout the course of our lives. Our brains exist as historical products, developing in interaction with themselves and with their surroundings.Hence there is a thin line between the organization of the nervous system and the political and social organization that both conditions and is conditioned by human experience. Looking carefully at contemporary neuroscience, it is hard not to notice that the new way of talking about the brain mirrors the management discourse of the neo-liberal capitalist world in which we now live, with its talk of decentralization, networks, and flexibility. Consciously or unconsciously, science cannot but echo the world in which it takes place.In the neo-liberal world, ?plasticity? can be equated with ?flexibility??a term that has become a buzzword in economics and management theory. The plastic brain would thus represent just another style of power, which, although less centralized, is still a means of control. In this book, Catherine Malabou develops a second, more radical meaning for plasticity. Not only does plasticity allow our brains to adapt to existing circumstances, it opens a margin of freedom to intervene, to change those very circumstances. Such an understanding opens up a newly transformative aspect of the neurosciences.In insisting on this proximity between the neurosciences and the social sciences, Malabou applies to the brain Marx?s well-known phrase about history: people make their own brains, but they do not know it. This book is a summons to such knowledge.Perspectives in continental philosophy.Philosophy of mindBrainPhilosophyCognitive neurosciencePhilosophyAdaptability (Psychology)Philosophy of mind.BrainPhilosophy.Cognitive neurosciencePhilosophy.Adaptability (Psychology)128/.2Malabou Catherine519811MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910780971803321What should we do with our brain3830891UNINA