The Derrida-Foucault Debate Revisited: The Problem of Periodization and Historicity in Foucault

Number: 23 May 1, 2017
  • Emre Koyuncu
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The Derrida-Foucault Debate Revisited: The Problem of Periodization and Historicity in Foucault

Abstract

The Derrida-Foucault debate, which started as a disagreement between the two philosophers about the role of madness in Descartes’ methodological scepticism, has eventually evolved into one of the most complicated philosophical debates of the twentieth century. Rather than scrutunizing the two philosphers’ respective interpretations of Decsartes, this article refers to Derrida’s critical reading of LéviStrauss in an attempt to reframe the debate as a problem of interpretation of historical particularities from the general perspective of structure, thereby putting in a new dialogue Derrida’s criticism of Foucault’s periodization of history in his archeological works and Foucault’s response to Derrida. Deleuze’s conception of structuralism suggests the possibility of a third position in the debate, because, for Deleuze, the presumed tension between history and structure, which incidentally underpins the entire debate between Derrida and Foucault, becomes irrelevant when history is conceived as a product of the structure itself

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Emre Koyuncu This is me

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May 1, 2017

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Year 1970 Number: 23

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Koyuncu, Emre. 2017. “DERRİDA-FOUCAULT TARTIŞMASINI YENİDEN OKUMAK: FOUCAULT’DA DÖNEMLEŞTİRME VE TARİHSELLİK SORUNU”. FLSF Felsefe Ve Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, nos. 23: 17-35. https://izlik.org/JA83DH66BC.

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