Foucault/Derrida Fifty Years Later: The Futures of Genealogy, Deconstruction, and Politics

Published by Columbia University Press 2016

Foucault/Derrida Fifty Years Later

The Futures of Genealogy, Deconstruction, and Politics

Edited by: Olivia Custer , Penelope Deutscher and Samir Haddad

Volume 12 in the series New Directions in Critical Theory

https://doi.org/10.7312/cust17194

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About this book

Early in their careers, Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida argued over madness, reason, and history in an exchange that profoundly influenced continental philosophy and critical theory. This collection traces this exchange in debates over the possibilities of genealogy and deconstruction, approaches to philosophy, and the role of the archive.

Author / Editor information

Olivia Custer is a Paris-based scholar and the author of L'Exemple de Kant (2012).

Penelope Deutscher is professor of philosophy at Northwestern University.

Samir Haddad is associate professor of philosophy at Fordham University.

Reviews

Recommended.

Johanna Oksala, University of Helsinki:
This excellent volume makes evident why the Foucault-Derrida debate continues to matter. The problem at the heart of it might ostensibly seem minor - the correct interpretation of a paragraph in Descartes's Meditations. In truth, the stakes could hardly be higher: the status of reason and critique, and ultimately, the future of philosophy itself.

Paul Patton, University of New South Wales, Australia:
This remarkable collection of essays shows how the exchange between Derrida and Foucault raises issues that remain crucial for contemporary critical thought. Individually and collectively, the authors demonstrate both the irreconcilable differences at the heart of this exchange and its inexhaustible productivity, not least in its effects on the subsequent work of Derrida and Foucault. This is a must read for anyone interested in deconstruction, genealogy or the relations between these critical methods.

Christophe Menke, Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt/Main, Germany:
Must we choose between Foucault and Derrida, between genealogy and deconstruction? The essays of this volume for the first time offer a comprehensive and profound analysis of the many aspects of what, retrospectively, can be called the Foucault-Derrida-debate and thus help us to better understand an alternative that – often unnoticed and unacknowledged – has shaped for over half a century large fields of critical thinking. The impact of this volume thus goes far beyond the investigation of a decisive event in the history of ideas; it explores no less than the contemporary possibilities for practicing critique.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
Abbreviations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xi
Introduction Olivia Custer, Penelope Deutscher and Samir Haddad Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xiii
Part One. Openings
1.The Foucault-Derrida Debate on the Argument Concerning Madness and Dreams Pierre Macherey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
2. Looking Back at History of Madness Lynne Huffer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
3. Violence and Hyperbole From “Cogito and the History of Madness” to The Death Penalty Michael Naas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	38
Part Two. Surviving the Philosophical Problem History Crosses Transcendental Analysis
4. Must Philosophy Be Obligatory? History versus Metaphysics in Foucault and Derrida Colin Koopman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
5. “The Common Root of Meaning and Nonmeaning” Derrida, Foucault, and the Transformation of the Transcendental Question Thomas Khurana Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	80
6. Philosophies of Immanence and Transcendence Reading History of Madness with Derrida and Habermas Amy Allen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
Part Three. After-Effects
7. Foucault, Derrida The Effects of Critique Judith Revel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
8. A Petty Pedagogy? Teaching Philosophy in Derrida’s “Cogito and the History of Madness” Samir Haddad Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
Part Four. Life, Death, Power
9. Power and the “Drive for Mastery” Derrida’s Freud and the Debate with Foucault Robert Trumbull Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
10. “This Death Which Is Not One” Reproductive Biopolitics and the Woman as Exception in The Death Penalty, Volume 1 Penelope Deutscher Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	166
Part Five. Foucault’s and Derrida’s Last Seminars
11. From Reprisal to Reprise Olivia Custer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	187
12. The Truth About Parrhēsia Philosophy, Rhetoric, and Politics in Late Foucault Geoffrey Bennington Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	225

Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 264

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Published: December 19, 2016
ISBN: 9780231542999