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PlasticPills - Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast
Pill Pod 42 - FIGHT NIGHT: Derrida vs. Foucault
May 28, 2021
In this podcast, Jacques 'Derridevil' Derrida challenges Michel Foucault on the topic of metaphysics. After a crippling blow, Foucault is frozen out. The podcast explores the critiques of Foucault and the legacy of Descartes, the relationship between reason, madness, and power, the complexity of language in political philosophy, and the limitations of binary thinking.
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- Foucault's framing of madness as the silent other and his romanticization of unreason fails to truly challenge the institutional realities that exploit and marginalize those experiencing mental illness.
- Foucault's project is contradictory, as it relies on the same language of order and reason that it seeks to challenge.
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Foucault's critique of reason and madness
Foucault's book, 'History of Madness,' aims to give a voice to madness and challenge the binary between reason and madness. However, Derrida argues that in doing so, Foucault falls into the trap of doing metaphysics and perpetuating the same oppressive structures he seeks to critique. Derrida questions the efficacy of writing an archeology of madness and argues that Foucault's framing of madness as the silent other and his romanticization of unreason fails to truly challenge the institutional realities that exploit and marginalize those experiencing mental illness.
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