“But, Who am I?” Self-reference between neurobiology and philosophy
Keywords:
Self-reference, Damasio, Derrida, Descartes, MalabouAbstract
This essay takes as its point of departure the interpretation of the philosophical tradition of the critique and deconstruction of subjectivity that Catherine Malabou develops in “Go wonder: Subjectivity and affects in neurobiological times” (2013). It challenges this interpretation by offering an alternative reading of the philosophical projects underpinning Antonio Damasio’s neurobiological genesis of the mind and Jacques Derrida’s thinking of life in general as auto-affection.
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