Madness and historicity: Foucault and Derrida, Artaud and Descartes

History of the Human Sciences 20 (4):79-105 (2007)
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The article examines the inter-implication between Foucault's and Derrida's representations of one another's work in the debate over Histoire de la folie and discovers a chiasmic structure between them, an inverted mirroring of each in the other, in which philosophy and historicity alternately encompass and exceed one another. At the heart of this is a problem of language (and the reason that accompanies it), which defines the limitations of the historian's work

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Foucault and his interlocutors.Arnold Ira Davidson (ed.) - 1997 - Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Histoire de la folie : an unknown book by Michel Foucault.Colin Gordon - 1990 - History of the Human Sciences 3 (1):3-26.

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