The Age of Plastic; Or, Catherine Malabou on the Hegelian Futures Market (The Future of Hegel: Plasticity, Temporality and Dialectic) (Book Review‪)‬

Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity, Temporality and Dialectic, preface by J. Derrida, trans. L. During. London, Routledge, 2005. By the 1920s, French philosophy was languishing in the soul-sapping shadow of Bergsonian vitalism and academic neo-Kantianism, when the suffocating crepuscular gloom was unexpectedly banished by the blaze of several new Russian suns. The two Alexes--Koyrakskiy and Kozevnikov, better known to posterity by their Frenchified surnames Koyre and Kojeve--definitively transformed the entire philosophical environment of the twentieth century by irradiating the pallid Parisians with bursts of the heavy element Hegelium.