Date: Wed, 15 Feb 1995 14:33:03 -0500 (EST)
From: David Kellogg <kellogg-AT-acpub.duke.edu>
Subject: Re: Foucault/Derrida (fwd)


On Wed, 15 Feb 1995, Christoph Schirmer wrote:
> >---------- Forwarded message ----------
> >Date: Tue, 14 Feb 1995 18:19:10 +0200 (IST)
> >From: Gabriel Ash <ggabriel-AT-zoot.tau.ac.il>
> >
> >Hi,
> >=09I am asking some h**p : In 'writting and difference' Derrida has
> >an essay in which he is analyzing and criticizing Foucault's
> >'Madness & civilization'. I think I know that Foucault has somewhere
> >answered the critique, could someone please give me the reference  ?
> >Thanks
>
> Hi,
> Foucault answer can be found in the appendix of the second French edition of
> Folie et déraison (Paris [Gallimard] 1969).
>

Yes.  There's an English translation somewhere.  Derrida has
extended this debate very recently, in an article published
in *Critical Inquiry* just last year, entitled "To Do Justice
to Freud*.  He threads back through *Folie et deraison* and reopens the
debate, all the while claiming that he's not reopening it because,
after all, Foucault's dead and it's impolite to carry on a
discussion with a dead man, not to mention impolite etc. etc. 
This time, though, he moves through *Folie et deraison* by focusing
on references to Freud, not Descartes.  I don't think one can
afford not to take this article into account, if you're
working through the layers of the debate.

Cheers,
David
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