Listening to Unreason: Foucault and Wittgenstein on Reason and the Unreasonable Man
In this paper I examine Wittgenstein’s appeals to madness in On Certainty in light of Foucault’s Histoire de la folie. A close look at these works, usually conceived as disparate, belonging to entirely different schools of thought, reveals they actually have much in common. Both can be read as inve...
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Language: | English |
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CBS Open Journals
2018-10-01
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Series: | Foucault Studies |
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Online Access: | https://192.168.7.24:443/index.php/foucault-studies/article/view/5581 |