Considering solidarity and mutual aid at the intersection of political philosophy and biology, made more urgent by the COVID-19 crisis, this book is grounded in the work of Catherine Malabou and takes her theories in creative new directions.
Dan Swain is research fellow at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences and assistant professor at the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague. He is the author of None So Fit to Break the Chains: Marx's Ethics of Self-Emancipation and Alienation: An Introduction to Marx's Theory which was nominated for the Bread and Roses prize for radical publishing.Petr Urban is senior researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic. He is the author of several books and co-editor of Care Ethics, Democratic Citizenship and the State.Catherine Malabou is professor of philosophy at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP) at Kingston University, at the European Graduate School, and in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of California Irvine, a position formerly held by Jacques Derrida. She is the author of many books, including The Future of Hegel: Plasticity, Temporality, and Dialectic and Morphing Intelligence, from IQ to IA.Petr Kouba is senior researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic. His publications include Margins of Phenomenology and The Phenomenon of Mental Disorder: Perspectives of Heidegger's Thought in Psychopathology.
