From Sorrow to Indifference by Catherine Malabou

I was studying psychology and life sciences at SUNY SB when I was introduced to Continental philosophy via a humanities requirement that I fulfilled with a class in existentialism and was converted to a whole new trajectory of inquiry (that was in the grim days of slicing and staining and perhaps if we had had the current technologies for scans I would have stayed put) so I’m more than sympathetic to bringing such resources together but CM, like her mentor, is so deeply committed to the traditions/texts of Philosophy that she can’t seem to attend to the nuanced and often inchoate complexities at hand/work in the research and in the phenomena at issue. In many ways Don Ihde is still ahead of the times with his pioneering efforts to expand material hermeneutics.

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