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Madness and historicity: Foucault and Derrida, Artaud and Descartes

Wendy Cealey Harrison

University of Greenwich at Medway, Central Avenue, Chatham Maritime, Kent ME4 4TB, UK, W.P.A.CealeyHarrison{at}gre.ac.uk

The article examines the inter-implication between Foucault's and Derrida's representations of one another's work in the debate over Histoire de la folie and discovers a chiasmic structure between them, an inverted mirroring of each in the other, in which philosophy and historicity alternately encompass and exceed one another. At the heart of this is a problem of language (and the reason that accompanies it), which defines the limitations of the historian's work.

Key Words: Jacques Derrida • Michel Foucault • historicity • language • philosophy

History of the Human Sciences, Vol. 20, No. 4, 79-105 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/0952695107082492
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