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  • Cogito and the History of M...
    Jacques Derrida

    Between Foucault and Derrida, 08/2016
    Book Chapter

    These reflections have as their point of departure, as the title of this lecture¹ clearly indicates, Michel Foucault’s bookFolie et déraison: Histoire de la folie à l’âge classique.² This book, admirable in so many respects, powerful in its breadth and style, is even more intimidating for me in that, having formerly had the good fortune to study under Michel Foucault, I retain the consciousness of an admiring and grateful disciple. Now, the disciple’s consciousness, when he starts, I would not say to dispute, but to engage in dialogue with the master or, better, to articulate the interminable and silent