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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Main Author: Liat Lavi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: CBS Open Journals 2018-10-01
Series:Foucault Studies
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Online Access:https://192.168.7.24:443/index.php/foucault-studies/article/view/5581