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Lecture | The Necessity of Madness and the Possibility of History: Reason and Power in Foucault's History of Madness

Thursday, October 21, 2010, 6:00 pm

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Amy Allen of Dartmouth University will present this lecture. In the preface to the 1961 edition of The History of Madness, Foucault claims that "the necessity of madness in the history of the West is linked... to the possibility of history." Allen's aim in this talk is twofold. First, she attempt to illuminate this claim by analyzing the complex relationships between madness, unreason, reason, power and history in Foucault's text. The goal here is to reconstruct the project of The History of Madness as an historical inquiry into the conditions of possibility of history itself. Second, in light of the trenchant criticisms of this aspect of The History of Madness offered by Derrida and Habermas, she'll consider whether such a project is possible, and, if so, what insights it might yield into the ambivalent relationship between power and reason.

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