What should we do with our brain?

✍ Scribed by Catherine Malabou

• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 118
• Series: Fordham Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Frontmatter
Translator's Note (page ix)
Foreword (by Marc Jeannerod, page xi)
Acknowledgments (page xv)
Introduction: Plasticity and Flexibility—For a Consciousness of the Brain (page 1)
1. Plasticity's Fields of Action (page 15)
Between Determination and Freedom (page 15)
The Three Plasticities (page 17)
Are We Free to Be High Performing? (page 29)
2. The Central Power of Crisis (page 32)
The End of the "Machine Brain" (page 33)
Neuronal Man and the Spirit of Capitalism (page 40)
Social "Disaffiliation" and Nervous Depression: The New Forms of Exclusion (page 46)
3. "You Are Your Synapses" (page 55)
The "Synaptic Self" or "Proto-Self" (page 57)
"Lost in Translation:" From the Neuronal to the Mental (page 62)
Another Plasticity (page 68)
Conclusion: Toward a Biological Alter-Globalism (page 78)
Notes (page 83)