Title: Between Foucault and Derrida /
Authors: Morar, Nicolae,; Aryal, Yubraj,; Cisney, Vernon W.,; Penfield, Christopher,
Year: 2016
Subjects: Foucault, Michel,; Derrida, Jacques; Derrida, Jacques.; Foucault, Michel,
Abstract: Explores the biographical, historical and philosophical connections between Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault. Derrida and Foucault are unquestionably two of the most influential philosophers of the 20th century. Both share a similar motivation to challenge our fundamental structures of meaning - in texts, political structures, and epistemic and discursive practices - in order to inspire new ways of thinking. 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 addition, 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.--
Contents: The history of madness debate. Cogito and the history of madness / Jacques Derrida ; My body, this paper, this fire / Michel Foucault ; 'But such people are insane' : on a disputed passage from the first meditation / Jean-Marie Beyssade ; A return to Descartes' first meditation / Michel Foucault ; Deconstruction, care of the self, spirituality : putting Foucault and Derrida to the test / Edward McGushin -- The end of reason. The history of historicity : the critique of reason in Foucault (and Derrida) / Amy Allen ; The end of man : Foucault, Derrida and the auto-bio-graphical / Ellen T. Armour -- The voice. 'Murmurs' and 'calls' : the significance of voice in the political reason of Foucault and Derrida / Fred Evans ; 'Let others be ends in themselves' : the convergence between Foucault's Parrhesia and Derrida's Teleiopoesis / Leonard Lawlor -- The placeless place. The aporia and the problem / Paul Rekret ; The folded unthought and the irreducibly unthinkable : singularity, multiplicity and materiality, in and between Foucault and Derrida / Arkady Plotnitsky -- Crisis, life and death. Living and dying with Foucault and Derrida : the question of biopower / Jeffrey T. Nealon ; Philosophy on trial : the crisis of deciding between Foucault and Derrida / Peter Gratton.