Philosophizing Madness from Nietzsche to Derrida

Angelos Evangelou is Associate Lecturer in Comparative Literature at the University of Kent, UK. His other publications include works on Bataille and the ‘ethics of violence’, the aesthetic of the “mad” and the problem of empathy in Anna Kavan. His current research project is in border studies and Cypriot literature.

• Chapter 1: The ‘Nietzsche Event’: Madness and the Limits of Becoming.- Chapter 2: Georges Bataille: Madness and the ‘Ethics of Vulnerability’.- Chapter 3: Michel Foucault: Madness and Philosophical Incapacity.- Chapter 4: Jacques Derrida: Philosophy Opens Up to Madness.- Conclusion: Responding to Madness: ‘Autobiographical Philosophy’.

“Philosophizing Madness, is an impressive feat of scholarly erudition. Evangelou, though a lecturer in Comparative Literature, has produced a work on an intense philosophical character debating one of the more crucial questions in contemporary Continental philosophy (in its French form).” (Guilel Treiber, Metapsychology Online Reviews, Metapsychology.Mentalhelp.net, Vol. 22 (15), April, 2010)