Jacques Derrida | Cogito and the History of Madness | Philosophers Explained | Stephen Hicks

Jacques Derrida(1930-2004) was a French philosopher and is known as the father of deconstruction.

In this critical essay, Derrida takes issue with Michel Foucault's treatment of Rene Descartes' treatment of reason and madness in his book, Madness and Civilization.

In Madness and Civilization, Foucault argues that Descartes' treatment of madness was brief and incomplete, yet it nevertheless essentially silenced madness, insanity.

Derrida takes issue with Foucault's inconsistent rejection of the language of reason(of objectivity) and calls for a more comprehensive rejection. "I philosophize only in terror, but in the confessed terror of going mad."

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