The Presences of Plasticity: Difference, Change, and Event in the Thought of Catherine Malabou
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Keywords

plasticity
difference
event (Ereignis)
deconstruction
metaphysics of presence

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Galán Hompanera, Iván. 2026. “The Presences of Plasticity: Difference, Change, and Event in the Thought of Catherine Malabou”. Journal of Philosophy of the University of Costa Rica 65 (171). https://doi.org/10.15517/revfil.2026.2768.

Abstract

The following article, devoted to the thought of Catherine Malabou, evaluates the concept of plasticity, as well as its impact on what has been called the metaphysics of presence. Plasticity appears as an instance of thought destined to break with the univocal determination of presence by establishing itself as the event by virtue of which presence manifests itself as a change of presence, that is to say, as changed presence. The present text also deals with Malabou's exegesis of Heidegger's text Time and Being in his work Le change Heidegger, sustaining the thesis that plasticity comes to be assimilated, by changing it, to the event (Ereignis).  

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