Between Foucault and Derrida

'This book is a careful analysis of the wide-ranging implications of this most unusual of encounters.'
Elizabeth Grosz, Duke University
'These outstanding essays by leading scholars open up productive new ways of reading the Derrida-Foucault debate. This is an essential collection for all those interested in this epochal exchange between two of the twentieth century's greatest thinkers.'
Paul Patton, University of New South Wales
Derrida and Foucault are without question two of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. Both share a similar motivation to challenge our fundamental structures of meaning - in texts, political structures and epistemic and discursive practices - in order to inspire new ways of thinking.
Between Foucault and Derrida explores the notorious 'Cogito' debate and includes the central articles of that debate. It also contains - for the first time in English translation - an important piece by Jean-Marie Beyssade along with a letter written by Foucault in reply. In addition, some of the most well-known scholars working in contemporary continental philosophy address the various philosophical intersections and divergences of these two profoundly important thinkers.
Yubraj Aryal is Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Montreal and Visiting Scholar at New York University. Vernon W. Cisney is Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Gettysburg College. Nicolae Morar is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Environmental Studies at University of Oregon. Christopher Penfield recently received his PhD in Philosophy from Purdue University.
Front cover images: Derrida © Raphael Gaillarde/Getty Images and Foucault © APF/Getty Images
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Cover design: Richard Budd
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Yubraj Aryal is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Montreal and Visiting Scholar at New York University. He is also the editor of Journal of Philosophy: A Cross-Disciplinary Inquiry. Dr. Aryal has interviewed Brian Massumi, Kwami Anthony Appiah, Lauren Berlant, Paul Patton, Richard Rorty, Robert Young and others.
Vernon W. Cisney is Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies and Philosophy at Gettysburg College. He is the author of Deleuze and Derrida: Difference and the Power of the Negative (Edinburgh University Press, 2018) and Derrida's Voice and Phenomenon: An Edinburgh Philosophical Guide (Edinburgh University Press, 2014). He is the co-editor of Between Foucault and Derrida (Edinburgh University Press, 2016); The Way of Nature and the Way of Grace: Philosophical Footholds on Terrence Malick's Tree of Life (Northwestern University Press, 2016); and Biopower: Foucault and Beyond (University of Chicago Press, 2015).
Nicolae Morar is Assistant Professor in Philosophy and Environmental Studies and an Associate Member with the Institute of Ecology and Evolution at the University of Oregon.
Christopher Penfield is Postdoctoral Scholar in Philosophy at Purdue University. He is the author of several articles on or related to Foucault, including those appearing in Foucault Studies (2014), The Cambridge Foucault Lexicon (2014), Tate Research (2016), and Understanding Foucault, Understanding Modernism (2017). He is translating Gilles Deleuze's 1985-1986 Foucault Seminars on a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant.