3. My Body, This Paper, This Fire

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Chronology ix
5. 1. Introduction: Between Foucault and Derrida 1
6. I. The History of Madness Debate
7. 2. Cogito and the History of Madness 29
8. 3. My Body, This Paper, This Fire 62
9. 4. ‘But Such People Are Insane’: On a Disputed Passage from the First Meditation 82
10. 5. A Return to Descartes’ First Meditation 101
11. 6. Deconstruction, Care of the Self, Spirituality: Putting Foucault and Derrida to the Test 104
12. II. The End of Reason
13. 7. The History of Historicity: The Critique of Reason in Foucault (and Derrida) 125
14. 8. The End of Man: Foucault, Derrida and the Auto-Bio-Graphical 138
15. III. The Voice
16. 9. ‘Murmurs’ and ‘Calls’: The Significance of Voice in the Political Reason of Foucault and Derrida 153
17. 10. ‘Let Others Be Ends in Themselves’: The Convergence Between Foucault’s Parrhesia and Derrida’s Teleiopoesis 169
18. IV. The Placeless Place
19. 11. The Aporia and the Problem 189
20. 12. The Folded Unthought and the Irreducibly Unthinkable: Singularity, Multiplicity and Materiality, In and Between Foucault and Derrida 207
21. V. Crisis, Life and Death
22. 13. Living and Dying with Foucault and Derrida: The Question of Biopower 237
23. 14. Philosophy on Trial: The Crisis of Deciding Between Foucault and Derrida 251
24. Notes on Contributors 263
25. Index 267