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

Theory & Philosophy

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Foucault and the Logocentric Tradition

Foucault tries to take a position outside of this system, outside of this logocentric system. Dearda takes him up on that and is like, look, we are already dealing with a kind of transcendent move here. How can then you claim to be existing outside of it, speaking on behalf or letting madness speak? And so in doing, Foucault re-inscribes the very binary that he's seeking to undo.

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