Between Foucault and Derrida

ISBN-13: 9780748697717 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 312 str.

Al Aryal Et; Yubraj Aryal; Vernon W. Cisney

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Explores the biographical, historical and philosophical connections between Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault
Between Foucault and Derrida explores the notorious Cogito debate and includes: the central articles, an important piece by Jean-Marie Beyssade, along with a letter Foucault wrote to Beyssade in response both these pieces available for the first time in English translation. In the second part of the book, 10 essays written by some of the most well-known scholars working in contemporary continental philosophy address the various philosophical intersections and divergences of these two profoundly important thinkers.

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Acknowledgments; Chronology; 1. Introduction, Christopher Penfield; Part I. The History of Madness Debate; 2. Cogito and the History of Madness, Jacques Derrida; 3. My Body, This Paper, This Fire, Michel Foucault; 4. ‘But Such People Are Insane’: On a Disputed Passage from the First Meditation, Jean-Marie Beyssade; 5. A Return to Descartes’s First Meditation, Michel Foucault; 6. Deconstruction, Care of the Self, Spirituality: Putting Foucault and Derrida to the Test, Edward McGushin; Part II. The End of Reason; 7. The History of Historicity: The Critique of Reason in Foucault (and Derrida), Amy Allen; 8. 'The End of Man: Foucault, Derrida, and the Auto-Bio-Graphical', Ellen Armour; Part III. The Voice; 9. ‘Murmurs’ and ‘Calls’: The Significance of Voice in the Political Reason of Foucault and Derrida, Fred Evans; 10. 'Let Others be Ends in themselves': The Convergence between Foucault’s Parr?sia and Derrida’s Teleiopoesis, Leonard Lawlor; Part IV. The Placeless Place; 11. The Aporia and the Problem, Paul Rekret; 12. The Folded Unthought and the Irreducibly Unthinkable: Singularity, Multiplicity, and Materiality, in and between Foucault and Derrida, Arkady Plotnitsky; Part V. Crisis, Life and Death; 13. Living and Dying with Foucault and Derrida: The Question of Biopower, Jeffrey T. Nealon; 14. Philosophy on Trial: The Crisis of Deciding between Foucault and Derrida, Peter Gratton; Notes on Contributors; Index.