Madness and Death in Philosophy
Ferit Güven illuminates the historically constitutive roles of madness and death in philosophy by examining them in the light of contemporary discussions of the intersection of power and knowledge and ethical relations with the other. Historically, as Güven shows, philosophical treatments of madness and death have limited or subdued their disruptive quality. Madness and death are linked to the question of how to conceptualize the unthinkable, but Güven illustrates how this conceptualization...
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Demonstrates the significance of the concepts of madness and death for the history of philosophy.
Introduction : madness and death11Plato : death and madness in the Phaedo and Phaedrus132Hegel : the madness of the soul and the death of the spirit313Heidegger : death as negativity514Heidegger : madness, negativity, truth, and history835Foucault : the history of madness119Conclusion : madness is not a thing of the past157
