Pli Volume 13
Contents Foucault: Madness/Sexuality/Biopolitics First Preface to Histoire de la folie à l’âge classique (1961) MICHEL FOUCAULT 1 Preface to the Italian edition of La volonté de savoir MICHEL FOUCAULT 11 Astride a Low Wall: Notes on Philosophy and Madness PIER ALDO ROVATTI 13 Lucid Unreason: Artaud and Foucault LORENZO CHIESA 26 Logics of Delirium REMO BODEI 66 Words, Desires and Ideas: Freud, Foucault and the Hermaphroditic Roots of Bisexuality SHARON COWAN & STUART ELDEN 79 From Biopower to Biopolitics MAURIZIO LAZZARATO 100 Toward a Conception of Racism without Race: Foucault and Contemporary Biopolitics WARREN MONTAG 113 A Fugitive Thread: The Production of Subjectivity in Marx JASON READ 126 Varia Teleosemantics and the Genesis of Norms: Co-opting Brandom TIM SCHROEDER 145 When Latour meets Nietzsche Around the Concept of Individuation JONATHAN PHILIPPE 162 Alain Badiou’s Theory of the Subject: The Re-Commencement of Dialectical Materialism (Part II) BRUNO BOSTEELS 173 Towards a Material Imaginary: Bataille, Nonlogical Difference, and the Language of Base Materialism F. SCOTT SCRIBNER 209 Reviews Peter Abelard’s Stoic Ethics JOHN SELLARS 222 What’s a Brain Supposed to Do? MICHAEL FERRER 229 Pli 13 (2002), 1-10. First Preface to Histoire de la folie à l’âge classique (1961)1 MICHEL FOUCAULT Pascal: “Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.” And this other text, by Dostoyevsky, from his Diary of a Writer: “It is not by confining one’s neighbour that one is convinced of one’s good sense.” We have yet to write the history of that other turn of madness, whereby men, in the gesture of sovereign reason that confines their neighbour, communicate and recognise each other through the merciless language of non-madness; to recover the moment of this conjuration, before madness was definitively established in the realm of truth, before it was revived by the lyricism of protest.
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