Foucault and Derrida
The Other Side of Reason
Roy Boyne(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
Published on 25. January 1990
Book
Hardback
208 pages
978-0-04-445084-9 (ISBN)
Description
The writings of Foucault and Derrida pose a serious challenge to old-established, but now seriously compromised forms of thought. In this critical but admiring work, the author explains the significant advances for which they have been responsible, their general importance for the human sciences, and the forms of hope that they offer for an age often characterized by scepticism, cynicism and reaction. The focus of the book is the dispute between Foucault and Derrida on the nature of reason, madness and "otherness". The range of issues covered includes - the birth of the prison, problems of textual interpretation, the nature of the self and contemporary movements such as socialism, feminism and anti-racialism. Roy Boyne argues that whilst the two thinkers chose very different paths, they were in fact rather surprisingly to converge upon the common ground of power and ethics.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
bibliography, index
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
Weight
371 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-04-445084-9 (9780044450849)
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Content
Foucault on madness; the political economy of madness; madness in art and literature; madness and science; notes and references; the Cartesian exclusion; Foucault and Descartes; notes and references; Derrida and Foucault; the critique; Foucault's replies; the question of transgression; notes and references; the text and the body; deconstruction; "Discipline and Punish" notes and references; post-Hierarchical politics; Derrida, Foucault and Marxism; feminism and difference; race and difference; notes and references.