Introduction

doi:10.7312/columbia/9780231171953.002.0008

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there was no debate. There never was a moment when Derrida and Foucault were sitting opposite each other, on display for an audience, arguing back and forth, controlled by a mediator or provoked by a journalist. There can be no images, no transcript. Of course, the history of philosophy is full of debates whose reality and vitality does not depend on an empirical encounter of the sort Foucault had with Chomsky: writers and readers frequently proceed by staging two authors as figures to stake out opposing positions. But the strange quarrel explored in these essays is not quite of that sort either.

On first approximation, the debate with which we are concerned takes place through three texts: Foucault’s book History of Madness, Derrida’s “Cogito and the History of Madness” (first given as a lecture which Foucault attended), and “My Body, This Paper, This Fire,” a text Foucault wrote as an explicit response to Derrida’s essay. We can also include a fourth text: “‘To Do Justice to Freud,’” which Derrida qualified as a “postface” to the old, archived debate. But this simple sequence belies the complexity of identifying the relevant texts and even their sequence. It passes over, for instance, the decade between Derrida’s challenge in 1963 and Foucault’s response in 1972, a decade in which their respective oeuvres were taking shape in part as competing alternatives for addressing the problems over which they had clashed. It ignores the peculiar histories of the publications, which were truncated and modified in various editions and translations.¹ It does not take into account the many other texts that the essays in this collection will show to be part of the debate as we understand it today.

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