Post-structuralist thought
Post-structuralist thought
Gilles Deleuze:
[S]ubject and object are metaphysical categories; they presuppose
the notions of unity and identity. They are categories of a
'vertical' philosophy (like Hegel's). The singular aspect of all
vertical philosophy is the separation in it of the truth of the
concept from the reality to which it refers.
Jacques Derrida:
'I try to place myself at a certain point at which ... the thing
signified is no longer easily separable from the signifier.'
Michel Foucault:
Madness here has its own form of reason and is seen as a general
characteristic of human beings. Unreasonable reason, and reasonable
unreason could exist side by side.
[...] Discontinuity (between eras) thus predominates in the history
of madness.
[...] Knowledge is [...] linked to power, and the prison becomes a
tool of knowledge.
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