Hence my question to this forum. The writings of Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida pose a serious challenge to the old established, but now seriously compromised forms of thought. 2 Özlem Sensoy and Robin DiAngelo, Is Everyone Really Equal? According to Postmodernism concept, the world is the text and the unique possible model of it is text-reality. Michel Foucault, The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences (New York: Random House, 1970; Vintage Books Edition, 1994). derrida enthusiastically attended lectures given by foucault about = madness around the time that 'folie et deraison' appeared. 2 law and madness stems at least partly from Derrida’s earlier debate with Foucault on the question of madness. The difference: for Foucault, Cogito is grounded in the exclusion of madness, while, for Derrida, Cogito itself can only emerge through a “mad” hyperbole (universalized doubt), and remains marked by this excess. I suspect not, but it would take a lot of digging to gain any certainty. 3) Michel Foucault, “Reply to Derrida,” from Paideia 11 (1 February 1972): This is the more direct text, taking up what he says are three postulates on which Derrida assents: All knowledge and all rational discourse have a fundamental relation to philosophy. -- exactly! Foucault's third objection to Derrida is that Derrida sides with a tyrannical and totalitarian reason. 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