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An Inquiry of Archaeology in History of Madness in the Classical Age: the Image and Discourse between Dreams and Madness

The thesis begins with the book History of Madness in the Classical Age of the noteworthy debate revolving around the two thinkers, Foucault and Derrida, and then embarks on the inquiry of Foucault¡¦s archeological methodology from two aspects. First, Cartesian Meditations presents the individual differences between the two thinkers¡¦ methodologies on the one hand, and it raises different viewpoints concerning the privileges of dream and madness on the other. Second, the debate in this sense is made to employ Derrida¡¦s comment as an angle of rereading Foucault, which serves to offer an attempt to renew Foucault¡¦s textual reading and conduct a methodological inquiry. Both dream and madness are the main thread of the thesis. Along with the two threads and Foucault¡¦s textual exposition, we are allowed to discover that the Classical Age offers a discursive practice between the visibility and the enunciability. Due to the discourse and language in reason and subjectivity embedded in the philosophical thought, which then obtains their priority, I aim to further strengthen the argument that Foucault¡¦s archeological work does not merely rely on the dimensions of discourse and language. Instead, it suggests de facto the transferring of moving toward the image and figure.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0829112-040323
Date29 August 2012
CreatorsLo, Huai-Sha
ContributorsJow-Jiun Gong, Wan-I Yang, Kuan-Min Huang, Chung-Chi Yu
PublisherNSYSU
Source SetsNSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive
LanguageCholon
Detected LanguageEnglish
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Sourcehttp://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0829112-040323
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