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Jacques Derrida's "Cogito and the History of Madness"

Theory & Philosophy

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Derrida on the Importance of Immediacy in Communication

For Derrida, the exclusion that we find between or of madness in relation to reason extends much further back. He says there wasn't this celebration of madness as Foucault necessarily lays out. There was an appreciation of one form of speech over others,. And that was the appreciation of speech.

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