TY - JOUR

T1 - The Plastic Hospital

T2 - Catherine Malabou's Architectural Therapeutics

AU - Dalton, Benjamin

PY - 2021/10/31

Y1 - 2021/10/31

N2 - This article stages encounters between the contemporary Frenchphilosopher Catherine Malabou and the French Medical Humanities.Whilst Malabou’s philosophy of the body and brain focuses largelyon sites of irreversible destruction and (neuro)pathology, I arguethat her thought also calls for new conceptions of therapy and care, laying the foundations for radical transformations in clinical practice and architecture. Further, I argue that Malabou’s philosophy paves the way for a new relationship between French thought and clinical architectures and spaces, moving past Michel Foucault’s Naissance de la Clinique (1963) to propose a more positive, mutually transformative interaction between philosophy and the hospital.

AB - This article stages encounters between the contemporary Frenchphilosopher Catherine Malabou and the French Medical Humanities.Whilst Malabou’s philosophy of the body and brain focuses largelyon sites of irreversible destruction and (neuro)pathology, I arguethat her thought also calls for new conceptions of therapy and care, laying the foundations for radical transformations in clinical practice and architecture. Further, I argue that Malabou’s philosophy paves the way for a new relationship between French thought and clinical architectures and spaces, moving past Michel Foucault’s Naissance de la Clinique (1963) to propose a more positive, mutually transformative interaction between philosophy and the hospital.

M3 - Journal article

VL - 58

SP - 191

EP - 210

JO - Essays in French Literature and Culture

JF - Essays in French Literature and Culture

ER -