Madness and historicity: Foucault and Derrida, Artaud and Descartes

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 al...

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Published inHistory of the human sciences Vol. 20; no. 4; pp. 79 - 105
Main Author Harrison, Wendy Cealey
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London, England Sage Publications 01.11.2007
Sage Publications Ltd
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Derrida, Jacques
Foucauldian analysis
Foucault, Michel
Historicity
History
Intertextuality
Language
Language disorders
Linguistics
Mirroring
Philosophy
Jacques Derrida
language
Michel Foucault
philosophy
historicity
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Summary: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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ISSN:0952-6951
1461-720X
DOI:10.1177/0952695107082492