COGITO AND MADNESS. AROUND THE FOUCAULT-DERRIDA DEBATE

Abstract

The article explores the controversy surrounding the status of madness in philosophy, which included Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida. It raises the possibility opened up by Foucault to make a History of madness, and the relevance of Derrida's criticisms of the way, apparently contradictory, that Foucault is concerned, throughout his work, psychoanalysis and the figure of Freud.