This thinker criticized another author's attempt to write a "history of silence" through archaeology, claiming that one could achieve this only by being silent about silence.
This thinker criticized another author's attempt to write a "history of silence" through archaeology, claiming that one could achieve this only by being silent about silence. This thinker adopted from Heidegger the technique of dealing with an inadequate word by writing it and crossing it out, called sous rature. He wrote an essay criticizing Foucault for claiming that Descartes dismissed insanity as a subject unworthy of philosophy. A word that can mean "potion" or "poison" is the subject of his analysis of Phaedrus in "Plato's Pharmacy." He argued that each half of a binary pair contains a "trace" of its opposite. He included the essay "Cogito and the History of Madness" in his book Writing and Difference. For 10 points, name this French author of Of Grammatology, the father of Deconstruction.
This thinker criticized another author's attempt to write a "history of silence" through archaeology, claiming that one could achieve this only by being silent about silence.
Jacques Derrida