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Philosophizing Madness from Nietzsche to Derrida

Evangelou, Angelos (2017) Philosophizing Madness from Nietzsche to Derrida. Palgrave Macmillan, UK, 277 pp. ISBN 978-3-319-57092-1. E-ISBN 978-3-319-57093-8. (doi:10.1007/978-3-319-57093-8) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:69040)

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Abstract

Drawing connections between madness, philosophy and autobiography, this book addresses the question of how Nietzsche's madness might have affected his later works. It also explores why continental philosophy after Nietzsche is so fascinated with madness, and how it (re)considers, (re)evaluates and (re)valorizes madness. To answer these questions, the book analyzes the work of three major figures in twentieth-century French philosophy who were significantly influenced by Nietzsche: Bataille, Foucault and Derrida, examining the ways in which their responses to Nietzsche’s madness determine how they understand philosophy as well as philosophy’s relation to madness. For these philosophers, posing the question about madness renders the philosophical subject vulnerable and implicates it in a state of responsibility towards that about which it asks. Out of this analysis of their engagement with the question of madness emerges a new conception of 'autobiographical philosophy', which entails the insertion of this vulnerable subject into the philosophical work, to which each of these philosophers adheres or resists in different ways.

Item Type: Book
DOI/Identification number: 10.1007/978-3-319-57093-8
Uncontrolled keywords: madness, madness studies in philosophy, autobiographical philosophy, Nietzsche, Bataille, Foucault, Derrida
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Arts and Humanities > School of Culture and Languages
Depositing User: Angelos Evangelou
Date Deposited: 10 Sep 2018 18:21 UTC
Last Modified: 29 May 2019 21:07 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/69040 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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