Between Foucault and Derrida
Published on 20. September 2016
Book
Paperback/Softback
312 pages
978-0-7486-9771-7 (ISBN)
Description
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 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.
The first collection of the central essays involved in the Cogito debate between Foucault and DerridaIncludes the first English translations of Jean-Marie Beyssade's important 1973 article on the debate and Foucault's letter in response to itSome of the best-known scholars working in continental philosophy today examine where Foucault and Derrida converge and diverge, and how they ultimately shaped each other's projectsContributors
Amy Allen * Ellen Armour * Yubraj Aryal * Jean-Marie Beyssade * Vernon W. Cisney * Jacques Derrida * Fred Evans * Michele Foucault * Peter Gratton * Leonard Lawlor * Edward McGushin * Nicolae Morar * Jeff Nealon * Christopher Penfield * Arkady Plotnitsk * Paul Rekret * Alan Schrift
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 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.
The first collection of the central essays involved in the Cogito debate between Foucault and DerridaIncludes the first English translations of Jean-Marie Beyssade's important 1973 article on the debate and Foucault's letter in response to itSome of the best-known scholars working in continental philosophy today examine where Foucault and Derrida converge and diverge, and how they ultimately shaped each other's projectsContributors
Amy Allen * Ellen Armour * Yubraj Aryal * Jean-Marie Beyssade * Vernon W. Cisney * Jacques Derrida * Fred Evans * Michele Foucault * Peter Gratton * Leonard Lawlor * Edward McGushin * Nicolae Morar * Jeff Nealon * Christopher Penfield * Arkady Plotnitsk * Paul Rekret * Alan Schrift
Reviews / Votes
In bringing together the key texts in Foucault's and Derrida's ground-breaking intellectual confrontation, alongside the insights of some of their most astute readers, Between Foucault and Derrida attests to the ongoing force of their philosophies in the present. Each has provided us with ways of thinking about language, knowledge and power that have defined our age but also oriented it in very different, even contrary, directions. This book is a careful analysis of the wide-ranging implications of this most unusual of encounters. -- Elizabeth Grosz, Duke University These outstanding essays by leading scholars open up productive new ways of reading the Derrida-Foucault debate. This is an essential collection for all those interested in this epochal exchange between two of the twentieth century's greatest thinkers. -- Paul Patton, University of New South WalesMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 233 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
478 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7486-9771-7 (9780748697717)
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Yubraj Aryal | Vernon W. Cisney | Nicolae Morar
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Persons
Yubraj Aryal is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Montreal and Visiting Scholar at New York University. He is also the editor of Journal of Philosophy: A Cross-Disciplinary Inquiry. Dr. Aryal has interviewed Brian Massumi, Kwami Anthony Appiah, Lauren Berlant, Paul Patton, Richard Rorty, Robert Young and others. Vernon W. Cisney is Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies and Philosophy at Gettysburg College. He is the author of Deleuze and Derrida: Difference and the Power of the Negative (Edinburgh University Press, 2018) and Derrida's Voice and Phenomenon: An Edinburgh Philosophical Guide (Edinburgh University Press, 2014). He is the co-editor of Between Foucault and Derrida (Edinburgh University Press, 2016); The Way of Nature and the Way of Grace: Philosophical Footholds on Terrence Malick's Tree of Life (Northwestern University Press, 2016); and Biopower: Foucault and Beyond (University of Chicago Press, 2015). Nicolae Morar is Assistant Professor in Philosophy and Environmental Studies and an Associate Member with the Institute of Ecology and Evolution at the University of Oregon. Christopher Penfield is Charles A. Dana Associate Professor of Philosophy at Sweet Briar College. He is the co-editor of Between Foucault and Derrida (EUP, 2016) and author of numerous articles on contemporary French philosophy, social and political theory, and aesthetics, including those published in or by Deleuze and Guattari Studies, The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Tate Publishing, Foucault Studies and The Cambridge Foucault Lexicon.
Editor
Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Montreal and Visiting Scholar at New York UniversityUniversity of Montreal and New York University.
Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies and PhilosophyGettysburg College
Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Biology and an Associate Member of the Institute of Ecology and EvolutionUniversity of Oregon
Postdoctoral Scholar in PhilosophyPurdue University
Content
Acknowledgments
Chronology
1. IntroductionChristopher Penfield
I. The History of Madness Debate
2. Cogito and the History of MadnessJacques Derrida
3. My Body, This Paper, This FireMichel Foucault
4. 'But Such People Are Insane': On a Disputed Passage from the First MeditationJean-Marie Beyssade
5. A Return to Descartes's First MeditationMichel Foucault
6. Deconstruction, Care of the Self, Spirituality: Putting Foucault and Derrida to the Test Edward McGushin
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
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 Parresia and Derrida's Teleiopoesis Leonard Lawlor
IV. The Placeless Place
11. The Aporia and the ProblemPaul Rekret
12. The Folded Unthought and the Irreducibly Unthinkable: Singularity, Multiplicity, and Materiality, in and between Foucault and DerridaArkady Plotnitsky
V. Crisis, Life and Death
13. Living and Dying with Foucault and Derrida: The Question of BiopowerJeffrey T. Nealon
14. Philosophy on Trial: The Crisis of Deciding between Foucault and DerridaPeter Gratton
Notes on Contributors
Index
Chronology
1. IntroductionChristopher Penfield
I. The History of Madness Debate
2. Cogito and the History of MadnessJacques Derrida
3. My Body, This Paper, This FireMichel Foucault
4. 'But Such People Are Insane': On a Disputed Passage from the First MeditationJean-Marie Beyssade
5. A Return to Descartes's First MeditationMichel Foucault
6. Deconstruction, Care of the Self, Spirituality: Putting Foucault and Derrida to the Test Edward McGushin
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
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 Parresia and Derrida's Teleiopoesis Leonard Lawlor
IV. The Placeless Place
11. The Aporia and the ProblemPaul Rekret
12. The Folded Unthought and the Irreducibly Unthinkable: Singularity, Multiplicity, and Materiality, in and between Foucault and DerridaArkady Plotnitsky
V. Crisis, Life and Death
13. Living and Dying with Foucault and Derrida: The Question of BiopowerJeffrey T. Nealon
14. Philosophy on Trial: The Crisis of Deciding between Foucault and DerridaPeter Gratton
Notes on Contributors
Index