Before Tomorrow · Epigenesis and Rationality by Malabou, Catherine -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Title Page Copyright Translator’s Foreword: Epigenesis of Her Texts

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Epigraphs

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Preface

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Introduction

Assessment: An Unstable Kant On the “System of the Epigenesis of Pure Reason” Methodological Principles Notes

1 Paragraph 27 of the Critique of Pure Reason

Presentation of the Initial Problem: The Origin of the Categories Equivocal Generation, Preformation, and Epigenesis Hume and Pre-established Harmony The Third Way Notes

2 Caught between Skeptical Readings

Predispositions “Formation without Preformation” Embryonic Development is Necessarily Unpredictable Readings and Contradictions Further Methodological Details Notes

3 The Difference between Genesis and Epigenesis

Epigenesis and Epicenter Localization and Surface Notes

4 Kant’s “Minimal Preformationism”

The “Pure” Readings of §27 The “System of the Epigenesis of Pure Reason”: The Objective Genitive Hypothesis The Reductive Division of the Source Rejecting “Empiricist” Readings Some Reminders about Metaphysical Knowledge The Metaphysical Deduction and the Transcendental Deduction Preformed Epigenesis Notes

5 Germs, Races, Seeds

Four Main Exploratory Tracks Kant to Herder: The Limits of the Formative Drive Epigenesis and Anthropological Variety On Human Races “Intellectual” Epigenesis The Critique of the Power of Judgment---62 A “Maximal” Preformationism? Notes

6 The “Neo-Skeptical” Thesis and Its Evolution

Who’s a Skeptic? Role Reversal in §27 Bouveresse Analyzes Kant’s Innatism From Pre-Established Harmony to Gradual Harmonization Another Version of the Source, Another Genesis of Epigenesis Against “Nativism”: Helmholtz and Boltzmann Transcendental Idealism Disappears from the Debate: Frege versus Darwin Notes

7 From Epigenesis to Epigenetics

Defining Epigenetics To be Done, Once and for All, with “Everything’s Genetic” The Importance of Environment “Neural Darwinism” and Brain Epigenesis Synaptic Mechanisms Selection Levels The Example of Mathematics Edelman’s Theory of Systems of Recognition From Methylation to Hermeneutics Notes

8 From Code to Book

The Problem of History Epigenesis and Teleology “Life and History Are Fields Not of Explanation, But Rather of Interpretation” Notes

9 Irreducible Foucault

What Is Enlightenment? The Elaboration of the Subject and Access to Truth: Prelude to Agreement Genealogy and Archeology The End of the Order of Genetic Derivation? The Two A Priori The Transcendental as a Residuum Notes

10 Time in Question

Stem and Root Taking Stock Schematism and Objectivity The Second Edition What We Might Have Understood Why Didn’t I Take Heidegger’s Lead? Notes

11 No Agreement

Return to §27: The Impotence of the Transcendental Deduction Hume beyond Himself The Wholly Other World Notes

12 The Dead End

Between Censure and License Heidegger to Meillassoux: What Finitude? Meillassoux to Heidegger: Alterity and the Critique of Property Towards a Critique of Neurobiological Reason To Conclude Notes

13 Towards and Epigenetic Paradigm of Rationality

Why a New Paradigm? Genesis, Epigenesis, Hermeneutics: Ricœur’s Contribution From the First to the Third Critique: The Intrication of the Transcendental and the Biological Difference in Causality The Order of Nature and Systematic Order: Examining Purposiveness The Return Effect of the Third Critique on the First Life and Factual Rationality The Other Contingency and the Other Necessity Structure and Evolution Notes

14 Can We Relinquish the Transcendental?

The End of the Divorce between Primordial Temporality and Leveled-Down Time Regarding the Possible Non-World Biological Reason The Thorny Problem of Analogy Invariance and Reorganization Kant Tomorrow Notes

Conclusion

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