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Between Foucault and Derrida
Edited by Yubraj Aryal, Vernon W. Cisney,
Nicolae Morar and Christopher Penfield
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Contents
Acknowledgements vii
Chronology by Alan D. Schrift ix
1. Introduction: Between Foucault and Derrida 1
Christopher Penfield
I. The History of Madness Debate
2. Cogito and the History of Madness 29
Jacques Derrida
3. My Body, This Paper, This Fire 62
Michel Foucault
4. ‘But Such People Are Insane’: On a Disputed Passage from the First
Meditation 82
Jean-Marie Beyssade
5. A Return to Descartes’ First Meditation 101
Michel Foucault
6. Deconstruction, Care of the Self, Spirituality: Putting Foucault
and Derrida to the Test 104
Edward McGushin
II. The End of Reason
7. The History of Historicity: The Critique of Reason in Foucault
(and Derrida) 125
Amy Allen
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8. The End of Man: Foucault, Derrida and the Auto-Bio-Graphical 138
Ellen T. Armour
III. The Voice
9. ‘Murmurs’ and ‘Calls’: The Significance of Voice in the Political Reason
of Foucault and Derrida 153
Fred Evans
10. ‘Let Others Be Ends in Themselves’: The Convergence Between
Foucault’s Parrhesia and Derrida’s Teleiopoesis 169
Leonard Lawlor
IV. The Placeless Place
11. The Aporia and the Problem 189
Paul Rekret
12. The Folded Unthought and the Irreducibly Unthinkable: Singularity,
Multiplicity and Materiality, In and Between Foucault and Derrida 207
Arkady Plotnitsky
V. Crisis, Life and Death
13. Living and Dying with Foucault and Derrida: The Question of Biopower 237
Jeffrey T. Nealon
14. Philosophy on Trial: The Crisis of Deciding Between Foucault and
Derrida 251
Peter Gratton
Notes on Contributors 263
Index 267
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Acknowledgements
Yubraj, Vernon, Nicolae and Christopher would like to express their gratitude to
the following people, all of whom helped to make this project possible.
First, we would like to thank our contributors for both the excellence of their
essays and the steadfastness of their support, qualities which have proven indispen-
sable to the crafting of this volume. We would also like to thank the two anonymous
reviewers, whose supportive insights and thoughtful suggestions were instructive in
orienting our own editorial work.
We would like to extend our sincere gratitude to all of the presses that gave us
the opportunity to republish the original source materials that form the foundation
of this project.
In particular, thank you to Routledge for giving us permission to republish
both ‘Cogito and the History of Madness’ by Jacques Derrida, first published
in Derrida’s Writing and Difference (London: Routledge, 1978, pp. 36–76), as
well as ‘My Body, This Paper, This Fire’ by Michel Foucault, initially pub-
lished as Appendix II in Foucault’s History of Madness (London: Routledge,
2006, pp. 550–74); to the Presses Universitaires de France (PUF) for allow-
ing us to publish ‘“But Such People Are Insane”: On a Disputed Passage from
the First Meditation’ by Jean-Marie Beyssade, originally published in French
as ‘“Mais quoi ce sont des fous”: Sur un passage controversé de la “Première
Méditation”’ in Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale, No. 3 (juillet–septembre
1973), pp. 273–94, and appearing in Jean-Marie Beyssade, Descartes au fil de l’ordre
(Epimethée series, Paris: PUF, 2001); and to PUF once more for allowing us to
publish ‘A Return to Descartes’ First Meditation’ by Michel Foucault, initially pub-
lished in French as ‘Retour sur la Première Méditation’ in Beyssade’s Descartes au fil
de l’ordre.
There are, in addition, two scholars whose support has been invaluable to the
realisation of this volume, and to whom we are especially grateful. To Daniel W.
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viii acknowledgements
Smith, you have been a mentor to all of us, and your unflagging encouragement,
friendship and backing have been essential to this project from the moment it was
conceived. Thank you. To Leonard Lawlor, from the beginning, your generous guid-
ance, advocacy and participation have elevated this project and facilitated its happy
achievement. Thank you.
Thank you to the editorial staff at Edinburgh University Press. To Carol
Macdonald, thank you for the constancy of your support, the buoyancy of your
encouragement, and the discernment of your judgement. Thank you also to Ersev
Ersoy and the rest of the editorial, design and marketing team whose diligent
work helped to bring this volume to completion. The editors would also like to
thank the Oregon Humanities Center and the College of Arts and Sciences at the
University of Oregon for the Humanities Faculty Publication Subvention. Special
thanks to Paul Peppis, Julia Heydon, and Melissa Gustafson for their support and
encouragement.
Yubraj would like to thank Brian Massumi, Marjorie Perloff, Robert Young, Paul
Patton, Peter Nicholls, Fred Evans, Kelly Oliver, William McBride and Leonard
Harris for their love and support. He would also like to thank Binod, Arun,
Samjhana, Sarita and Milan for always being his inspiration.
Vernon would like to thank Jody for her love, friendship and unwavering support;
Jacob and Hayley for being constant sources of joy and inspiration; and Kerry for his
friendship, inspiration and encouragement.
Nicolae would like to thank Anca for her support and cherishing love, and Colin
Koopman and Ted Toadvine for their constant support and generous insights into
how best to think of the volume.
Christopher would like to thank Eden for her sustaining love, Justin Litaker for
his intellectual comradery, and James Miller for having first introduced him to a
fascinating and lesser known Foucault.
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Michel Foucault and Jacques
Derrida: A Chronology
Alan D. Schrift
1926 15 October: Michel Foucault born in
Poitiers.
1930 15 July: Jacques Derrida born in El-Biar, a
suburb of Algiers.
1945 Fall: Foucault begins khâgne at the Lycée
Henri-IV in Paris, where he first meets
Jean Hyppolite.
1946 July: Foucault enters the École Normale
Supérieure, Rue d’Ulm (ENS).
1948 Foucault passes the licence de philosophie
at the Sorbonne.
1949 Foucault passes the licence de psychologie Derrida moves to Paris and enters khâgne at
at the Sorbonne. the Lycée Louis-le-Grand.
1951 August: Foucault passes the agrégation de
philosophie, finishing third. Philosophers
appearing on the programme for the
written examination include the Stoics,
Plotinus, Spinoza, Hume, Comte, and
Bergson.
1951 October: Foucault named répétiteur of
psychology at the ENS.
1952 June: Foucault passes his diplôme de Fall: Derrida enters the ENS and
psychopathologie at the Institute of begins attending Foucault’s lectures on
Psychology of Paris. experimental psychology. Derrida, along
with some other students, occasionally
travels with Foucault to see psychiatric
patients at the Saint-Anne Hospital.
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x chronology
1953 June: Foucault passes his diplôme de Derrida travels to the Husserl Archive in
psychologie expérimentale at the Institute Louvain, Belgium to do research for his
of Psychology of Paris. thesis.
1954 Derrida submits his Diplôme d’études
supérieures, directed by Jean Hyppolite and
Maurice Patronnier de Gandillac, on The
Problem of Genesis in Husserl’s Philosophy.
1956 Derrida passes the agrégation de philosophie,
finishing fourteenth. Philosophers appearing
on the programme for the written examination
include the Stoics, Plotinus, Descartes,
Malebranche, Berkeley, and Bergson.
1956 Fall – Spring 1957: Derrida studies at
Harvard as a special auditor.
1960 Fall: Foucault begins teaching Fall: Derrida begins teaching at the
philosophy and psychology at the Sorbonne as assistant (to Suzanne
University of Clermont-Ferrand. Bachelard, Georges Canguilhem, Paul
Ricoeur, and Jean Wahl) in general
philosophy and logic. He continues at the
Sorbonne until 1964.
1961 20 May: Foucault defends his two
theses – Folie et déraison. Histoire de la
folie à l’âge classique and Introduction
à l’Anthropologie de Kant – for the
Doctorat d’État at the Sorbonne. The
jury, presided over by Henri Gouhier,
includes Canguilhem as reporter, Daniel
Lagache, Hyppolite, and de Gandillac.
1961 Foucault publishes Histoire de la folie à Derrida publishes Introduction to Husserl’s
l’âge classique. Origin of Geometry.
1963 January: Foucault joins the editorial
board of Critique. According to Jean
Piel, Critique’s Director, Foucault only
became active on the board after the
publication of The Order of Things in
1966. His activity declined after 1973,
although his name remained on the
editorial board until 1977. (Dits et
écrits I, 24–25)
1963 27 January: Foucault sends Derrida 3 February: Derrida writes to Foucault that he
an enthusiastic letter thanking him re-read History of Madness over the Christmas
for sending a copy of his Introduction break from teaching in anticipation of the
to Husserl’s Origin of Geometry, paper he would present at the invitation of
about which he says he is “filled with Jean Wahl to the Collège Philosophique.
admiration” as he admits to knowing He informs Foucault that he will focus on
“what a perfect connoisseur of Husserl” his pages addressing Descartes: “I think I’ll
Derrida was. (Peeters, 129) It is worth try to show – basically – that your reading of
noting that throughout their letters of Descartes is legitimate and illuminating, but
1963–64, Foucault and Derrida address at a deep level that in my view cannot be the
each other with the familiar tu. level of the text you are using and that,
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