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200 10$aWhat should we do with our brain?$b[electronic resource] /$fCatherine Malabou ; foreword by Marc Jeannerod ; translated by Sebastian Rand
205   $a1st ed.
210   $aNew York $cFordham University Press$d2008
215   $a1 online resource (118 p.)
225 1 $aPerspectives in continental philosophy
300   $aTranslated from the French.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 83-94).
327   $a""Contents""; ""Translatora???s Note""; ""Foreword""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""What Should We Do with Our Brain?""; ""Introduction""; ""Plasticitya???s Fields of Action""; ""The Central Power in Crisis""; ""a???a???You Are Your Synapsesa???a???""; ""Conclusion: Toward a Biological Alter-globalism""; ""Notes""
330   $aRecent neuroscience, in replacing the old model of the brain as a single centralized source of control, has emphasized ?plasticity,? the quality by which our brains develop and change throughout the course of our lives. Our brains exist as historical products, developing in interaction with themselves and with their surroundings.Hence there is a thin line between the organization of the nervous system and the political and social organization that both conditions and is conditioned by human experience. Looking carefully at contemporary neuroscience, it is hard not to notice that the new way of talking about the brain mirrors the management discourse of the neo-liberal capitalist world in which we now live, with its talk of decentralization, networks, and flexibility. Consciously or unconsciously, science cannot but echo the world in which it takes place.In the neo-liberal world, ?plasticity? can be equated with ?flexibility??a term that has become a buzzword in economics and management theory. The plastic brain would thus represent just another style of power, which, although less centralized, is still a means of control. In this book, Catherine Malabou develops a second, more radical meaning for plasticity. Not only does plasticity allow our brains to adapt to existing circumstances, it opens a margin of freedom to intervene, to change those very circumstances. Such an understanding opens up a newly transformative aspect of the neurosciences.In insisting on this proximity between the neurosciences and the social sciences, Malabou applies to the brain Marx?s well-known phrase about history: people make their own brains, but they do not know it. This book is a summons to such knowledge.
410  0$aPerspectives in continental philosophy.
606   $aPhilosophy of mind
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