Re: foucault/derrida

In a message dated 10/22/99 10:46:12 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
levi_bryant@xxxxxxxxx writes:

<< If Foucault is in some sense claiming that
identities such as madness are discursive formations
molded from a field of forces, then the evocation of a
true or authentic madness can only represent one more
rationalization of madness in a series of other
rationalizations. In other words, Foucault, according
to Derrida, falls prey to precisely the same fallacy
that he accuses psychology of... >>

wouldn't this same reasoning also hold true for Derrida?


joe brennan....

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