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Between Foucault and Derrida This content downloaded from 130.195.21.27 on Thu, 16 Aug 2018 07:03:11 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms ARYAL 9780748697694 PRINT.indd 1 05/08/2016 08:00 This content downloaded from 130.195.21.27 on Thu, 16 Aug 2018 07:03:11 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms ARYAL 9780748697694 PRINT.indd 2 05/08/2016 08:00 Between Foucault and Derrida Edited by Yubraj Aryal, Vernon W. Cisney, Nicolae Morar and Christopher Penfield This content downloaded from 130.195.21.27 on Thu, 16 Aug 2018 07:03:11 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms ARYAL 9780748697694 PRINT.indd 3 05/08/2016 08:00 Edinburgh University Press is one of the leading university presses in the UK. We publish academic books and journals in our selected subject areas across the humanities and social sciences, combining cutting-edge scholarship with high editorial and production values to produce academic works of lasting importance. For more information visit our website: edinburghuniversitypress.com © editorial matter and organisation Yubraj Aryal, Vernon W. Cisney, Nicolae Morar and Christopher Penfield, 2016 © the chapters their several authors, 2016 Edinburgh University Press Ltd The Tun – Holyrood Road 12(2f) Jackson’s Entry Edinburgh EH8 8PJ Typeset in 10/12 Goudy Old Style by Servis Filmsetting Ltd, Stockport, Cheshire, and printed and bound in Great Britain by CPI Group (UK) Ltd, Croydon CR0 4YY A CIP record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 978 0 7486 9769 4 (hardback) ISBN 978 0 7486 9770 0 (webready PDF) ISBN 978 0 7486 9771 7 (paperback) ISBN 978 0 7486 9772 4 (epub) The right of Yubraj Aryal, Vernon W. Cisney, Nicolae Morar and Christopher Penfield to be identified as the editors of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, and the Copyright and Related Rights Regulations 2003 (SI No. 2498). Published with the support of the Edinburgh University Scholarly Publishing Initiatives Fund. This content downloaded from 130.195.21.27 on Thu, 16 Aug 2018 07:03:11 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms ARYAL 9780748697694 PRINT.indd 4 05/08/2016 08:00 Contents Acknowledgements vii Chronology by Alan D. Schrift ix 1. Introduction: Between Foucault and Derrida 1 Christopher Penfield I. The History of Madness Debate 2. Cogito and the History of Madness 29 Jacques Derrida 3. My Body, This Paper, This Fire 62 Michel Foucault 4. ‘But Such People Are Insane’: On a Disputed Passage from the First Meditation 82 Jean-Marie Beyssade 5. A Return to Descartes’ First Meditation 101 Michel Foucault 6. Deconstruction, Care of the Self, Spirituality: Putting Foucault and Derrida to the Test 104 Edward McGushin II. The End of Reason 7. The History of Historicity: The Critique of Reason in Foucault (and Derrida) 125 Amy Allen This content downloaded from 130.195.21.27 on Thu, 16 Aug 2018 07:01:59 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms ARYAL 9780748697694 PRINT.indd 5 05/08/2016 08:00 vi contents 8. The End of Man: Foucault, Derrida and the Auto-Bio-Graphical 138 Ellen T. Armour III. The Voice 9. ‘Murmurs’ and ‘Calls’: The Significance of Voice in the Political Reason of Foucault and Derrida 153 Fred Evans 10. ‘Let Others Be Ends in Themselves’: The Convergence Between Foucault’s Parrhesia and Derrida’s Teleiopoesis 169 Leonard Lawlor IV. The Placeless Place 11. The Aporia and the Problem 189 Paul Rekret 12. The Folded Unthought and the Irreducibly Unthinkable: Singularity, Multiplicity and Materiality, In and Between Foucault and Derrida 207 Arkady Plotnitsky V. Crisis, Life and Death 13. Living and Dying with Foucault and Derrida: The Question of Biopower 237 Jeffrey T. Nealon 14. Philosophy on Trial: The Crisis of Deciding Between Foucault and Derrida 251 Peter Gratton Notes on Contributors 263 Index 267 This content downloaded from 130.195.21.27 on Thu, 16 Aug 2018 07:01:59 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms ARYAL 9780748697694 PRINT.indd 6 05/08/2016 08:00 Acknowledgements Yubraj, Vernon, Nicolae and Christopher would like to express their gratitude to the following people, all of whom helped to make this project possible. First, we would like to thank our contributors for both the excellence of their essays and the steadfastness of their support, qualities which have proven indispen- sable to the crafting of this volume. We would also like to thank the two anonymous reviewers, whose supportive insights and thoughtful suggestions were instructive in orienting our own editorial work. We would like to extend our sincere gratitude to all of the presses that gave us the opportunity to republish the original source materials that form the foundation of this project. In particular, thank you to Routledge for giving us permission to republish both ‘Cogito and the History of Madness’ by Jacques Derrida, first published in Derrida’s Writing and Difference (London: Routledge, 1978, pp. 36–76), as well as ‘My Body, This Paper, This Fire’ by Michel Foucault, initially published as Appendix II in Foucault’s History of Madness (London: Routledge, 2006, pp. 550–74); to the Presses Universitaires de France (PUF) for allowing us to publish ‘“But Such People Are Insane”: On a Disputed Passage from the First Meditation’ by Jean-Marie Beyssade, originally published in French as ‘“Mais quoi ce sont des fous”: Sur un passage controversé de la “Première Méditation”’ in Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale, No. 3 (juillet–septembre 1973), pp. 273–94, and appearing in Jean-Marie Beyssade, Descartes au fil de l’ordre (Epimethée series, Paris: PUF, 2001); and to PUF once more for allowing us to publish ‘A Return to Descartes’ First Meditation’ by Michel Foucault, initially published in French as ‘Retour sur la Première Méditation’ in Beyssade’s Descartes au fil de l’ordre. There are, in addition, two scholars whose support has been invaluable to the realisation of this volume, and to whom we are especially grateful. To Daniel W. This content downloaded from 130.195.21.27 on Thu, 16 Aug 2018 07:01:57 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms ARYAL 9780748697694 PRINT.indd 7 05/08/2016 08:00 viii acknowledgements Smith, you have been a mentor to all of us, and your unflagging encouragement, friendship and backing have been essential to this project from the moment it was conceived. Thank you. To Leonard Lawlor, from the beginning, your generous guid- ance, advocacy and participation have elevated this project and facilitated its happy achievement. Thank you. Thank you to the editorial staff at Edinburgh University Press. To Carol Macdonald, thank you for the constancy of your support, the buoyancy of your encouragement, and the discernment of your judgement. Thank you also to Ersev Ersoy and the rest of the editorial, design and marketing team whose diligent work helped to bring this volume to completion. The editors would also like to thank the Oregon Humanities Center and the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Oregon for the Humanities Faculty Publication Subvention. Special thanks to Paul Peppis, Julia Heydon, and Melissa Gustafson for their support and encouragement. Yubraj would like to thank Brian Massumi, Marjorie Perloff, Robert Young, Paul Patton, Peter Nicholls, Fred Evans, Kelly Oliver, William McBride and Leonard Harris for their love and support. He would also like to thank Binod, Arun, Samjhana, Sarita and Milan for always being his inspiration. Vernon would like to thank Jody for her love, friendship and unwavering support; Jacob and Hayley for being constant sources of joy and inspiration; and Kerry for his friendship, inspiration and encouragement. Nicolae would like to thank Anca for her support and cherishing love, and Colin Koopman and Ted Toadvine for their constant support and generous insights into how best to think of the volume. Christopher would like to thank Eden for her sustaining love, Justin Litaker for his intellectual comradery, and James Miller for having first introduced him to a fascinating and lesser known Foucault. This content downloaded from 130.195.21.27 on Thu, 16 Aug 2018 07:01:57 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms ARYAL 9780748697694 PRINT.indd 8 05/08/2016 08:00 Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida: A Chronology Alan D. Schrift 1926 15 October: Michel Foucault born in Poitiers. 1930 15 July: Jacques Derrida born in El-Biar, a suburb of Algiers. 1945 Fall: Foucault begins khâgne at the Lycée Henri-IV in Paris, where he first meets Jean Hyppolite. 1946 July: Foucault enters the École Normale Supérieure, Rue d’Ulm (ENS). 1948 Foucault passes the licence de philosophie at the Sorbonne. 1949 Foucault passes the licence de psychologie Derrida moves to Paris and enters khâgne at at the Sorbonne. the Lycée Louis-le-Grand. 1951 August: Foucault passes the agrégation de philosophie, finishing third. Philosophers appearing on the programme for the written examination include the Stoics, Plotinus, Spinoza, Hume, Comte, and Bergson. 1951 October: Foucault named répétiteur of psychology at the ENS. 1952 June: Foucault passes his diplôme de Fall: Derrida enters the ENS and psychopathologie at the Institute of begins attending Foucault’s lectures on Psychology of Paris. experimental psychology. Derrida, along with some other students, occasionally travels with Foucault to see psychiatric patients at the Saint-Anne Hospital. This content downloaded from 130.195.21.27 on Thu, 16 Aug 2018 07:01:56 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms ARYAL 9780748697694 PRINT.indd 9 05/08/2016 08:00 x chronology 1953 June: Foucault passes his diplôme de Derrida travels to the Husserl Archive in psychologie expérimentale at the Institute Louvain, Belgium to do research for his of Psychology of Paris. thesis. 1954 Derrida submits his Diplôme d’études supérieures, directed by Jean Hyppolite and Maurice Patronnier de Gandillac, on The Problem of Genesis in Husserl’s Philosophy. 1956 Derrida passes the agrégation de philosophie, finishing fourteenth. Philosophers appearing on the programme for the written examination include the Stoics, Plotinus, Descartes, Malebranche, Berkeley, and Bergson. 1956 Fall – Spring 1957: Derrida studies at Harvard as a special auditor. 1960 Fall: Foucault begins teaching Fall: Derrida begins teaching at the philosophy and psychology at the Sorbonne as assistant (to Suzanne University of Clermont-Ferrand. Bachelard, Georges Canguilhem, Paul Ricoeur, and Jean Wahl) in general philosophy and logic. He continues at the Sorbonne until 1964. 1961 20 May: Foucault defends his two theses – Folie et déraison. Histoire de la folie à l’âge classique and Introduction à l’Anthropologie de Kant – for the Doctorat d’État at the Sorbonne. The jury, presided over by Henri Gouhier, includes Canguilhem as reporter, Daniel Lagache, Hyppolite, and de Gandillac. 1961 Foucault publishes Histoire de la folie à Derrida publishes Introduction to Husserl’s l’âge classique. Origin of Geometry. 1963 January: Foucault joins the editorial board of Critique. According to Jean Piel, Critique’s Director, Foucault only became active on the board after the publication of The Order of Things in 1966. His activity declined after 1973, although his name remained on the editorial board until 1977. (Dits et écrits I, 24–25) 1963 27 January: Foucault sends Derrida 3 February: Derrida writes to Foucault that he an enthusiastic letter thanking him re-read History of Madness over the Christmas for sending a copy of his Introduction break from teaching in anticipation of the to Husserl’s Origin of Geometry, paper he would present at the invitation of about which he says he is “filled with Jean Wahl to the Collège Philosophique. admiration” as he admits to knowing He informs Foucault that he will focus on “what a perfect connoisseur of Husserl” his pages addressing Descartes: “I think I’ll Derrida was. (Peeters, 129) It is worth try to show – basically – that your reading of noting that throughout their letters of Descartes is legitimate and illuminating, but 1963–64, Foucault and Derrida address at a deep level that in my view cannot be the each other with the familiar tu. level of the text you are using and that, This content downloaded from 130.195.21.27 on Thu, 16 Aug 2018 07:01:56 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms ARYAL 9780748697694 PRINT.indd 10 05/08/2016 08:00