Pill Pod 42 - FIGHT NIGHT: Derrida vs. Foucault

PlasticPills - Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast

The Year is 1963 and our Versus Series continues with Fight Night Round 2, in which a young challenger, Jacques 'Derridevil' Derrida, comes at Dr. Archaeology himself, Michel Foucault, accusing him of committing the cardinal cosmological sin: METAPHYSICS. After a sound pounding through the first few pages, Derridevil lands a crippling blow, that Foucault's reading of Descartes was "naive," enough for Foucault to freeze him out for the next 20 years. Tune in next week for Foucault's long-awaited defense from 15 years later...