{"product_id":"the-ontology-of-the-accident","title":"The Ontology of the Accident","description":"Condition: BRAND NEW\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780745652610\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2012\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: John Wiley \u0026amp; Sons (UK)\u003cbr\u003ePages: 112\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDescription:\u003cbr\u003eIn the usual order of things, lives run their course and eventually\u003cbr\u003eone becomes who one is. Bodily and psychic transformations do\u003cbr\u003enothing but reinforce the permanence of identity. But as a result\u003cbr\u003eof serious trauma, or sometimes for no reason at all, a\u003cbr\u003esubject?s history splits and a new, unprecedented persona\u003cbr\u003ecomes to live with the former person - an unrecognizable persona\u003cbr\u003ewhose present comes from no past and whose future harbors nothing\u003cbr\u003eto come; an existential improvisation, a form born of the accident\u003cbr\u003eand by accident. Out of a deep cut opened in a biography, a new\u003cbr\u003ebeing comes into the world for a second time. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat is this form? A face? A psychological profile? What ontology\u003cbr\u003ecan it account for, if ontology has always been attached to the\u003cbr\u003eessential, forever blind to the aléa of\u003cbr\u003etransformations? What history of being can the plastic power of\u003cbr\u003edestruction explain? What can it tell us about the explosive\u003cbr\u003etendency of existence that secretly threatens each one of us?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContinuing her reflections on destructive plasticity, split\u003cbr\u003eidentities and the psychic consequences experienced by those who\u003cbr\u003ehave suffered brain injury or have been traumatized by war and\u003cbr\u003eother catastrophes, Catherine Malabou invites us to join her in a\u003cbr\u003ephilosophic and literary adventure in which Spinoza, Deleuze and\u003cbr\u003eFreud cross paths with Proust and Duras.","brand":"Smartfox Books","offers":[{"title":"Default","offer_id":41862115623045,"sku":"PR88219","price":39.3,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0213\/3637\/files\/image_STJUMTTO7EW8.jpg?v=1789229733","url":"https:\/\/smartfoxbooks.co.nz\/products\/the-ontology-of-the-accident","provider":"Smartfox Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}