Ebook: Self and emotional life: philosophy, psychoanalysis, and neuroscience

Adrian Johnston and Catherine Malabou defy theoretical humanities' deeply-entrenched resistance to engagements with the life sciences. Rather than treat biology and its branches as hopelessly reductive and politically suspect, they view recent advances in neurobiology and its adjacent scientific fields as providing crucial catalysts to a radical rethinking of subjectivity. Merging three distinct disciplines?European philosophy from Descartes to the present, Freudian-Lacanian psychoanalysis, and affective neuroscience?Johnston and Malabou triangulate the emotional life of affective.;Cover; Half title; Series Page; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface: From Nonfeeling to Misfeeling-Affects Between Trauma and the Unconscious; Acknowledgments; Part I. Go Wonder: Subjectivity and Affects in Neurobiological Times; Introduction: From the Passionate Soul to the Emotional Brain; 1. What Does "of" Mean in Descartes's Expression, "The Passions of the Soul"?; 2. A "Self-Touching You": Derrida and Descartes; 3. The Neural Self: Damasio Meets Descartes; 4. Affects Are Always Affects of Essence: Book 3 of Spinoza's Ethics.