E-Texts: Foucault, “My Body, This Paper, This Fire”

Posted by on May 19, 2007 in Philosophy 2.0 | 3 Comments

This is an essay by Foucault, published in Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology: Essential Works of Foucault, 1954-1984, Volume II, where he directly addresses Derrida’s critique of Descartes.

Link to “My Body, This Paper, This Fire”.

PS: John Protevi rightly points out that Foucault’s “essay addresses D’s reading (in “Cogito and the History of Madness”) of F’s reading of Desartes (in History of Madness)” – a more apt description.

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  1. Ian M.
    May 19, 2007 at 1:48 pm

    I’ve just read it, I’ve never read a piece from Foucault where he writes with such anger. You can feel it coming off of the page almost. Thanks for posting this otherwise hard to find essay.

  2. John Protevi
    May 19, 2007 at 8:09 pm

    Wouldn’t it be more accurate to say that F’s essay addresses D’s reading (in “Cogito and the History of Madness”) of F’s reading of Desartes (in History of Madness)?

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