1st Edition

Plasticity and Education The Philosophy of Catherine Malabou and Educational Thinking

Edited By Kjetil Horn Hogstad Copyright 2025
116 Pages
by Routledge

116 Pages
by Routledge

116 Pages
by Routledge

This book explores the engagement between the philosophical concept of ‘plasticity’ and the radically changing space of educational thinking. Plasticity is a central concept in the philosophy of Catherine Malabou. It represents a new metaphor for the space between the creation, resistance, and total dissolution of form. Plasticity designates the most prominent feature of the human being: the... Read more

1. Introduction: Plasticity and education

Kjetil Horn Hogstad

 

2. Philosophy of change in Catherine Malabou and in Martin Heidegger: The fantastic of childhood or the childhood of the fantastic

Anna Kouppanou

 

3. What does it mean to be a ‘subject’? Malabou’s plasticity and going beyond the question of the inhuman, posthuman, and nonhuman

Sevket Benhur Oral

 

4. The meaning of life: the ontological question concerning education through the lens of Catherine Malabou’s contribution to thinking

Nick Peim

 

5. Relearning to think: Toward a biological conception of rationality

Kaja Jenssen Rathe

 

6. Can we kill the Bildung king? – The quest for a non-sovereign concept of Bildung

Kjetil Horn Hogstad

 

7. Plasticity and education – An interview with Catherine Malabou

Kjetil Horn Hogstad and Catherine Malabou

 

8. 'Plastic truth' after Catherine Malabou. Truth, Life, and Education

Kjetil Horn Hogstad

 

9. Rereading Intelligence with Catherine Malabou. Education, modernity and intelligence

Nick Peim

Biography

Kjetil Horn Hogstad works on fundamental questions in education, in particular questions of Bildung, culture, freedom and notions of biology. His doctoral thesis represented a rethinking of the educational concept Bildung from the angle of Catherine Malabou’s philosophy. He is currently a Postdoctoral fellow working on interdisciplinarity, collaboration and hospitality in higher education.