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LOCURA, LENGUAJE, LITERATURA
Edición establecida por Henri-Paul Fruchaud, Daniele Lorenzini y Judith Revel
Introducción de Judith Revel
La locura, el lenguaje y la literatura constituyen uno de los núcleos más intensos y persistentes del pensamiento de Michel Foucault. De ello da cuenta este volumen, que reúne trece textos fundamentales –en su mayoría inéditos– escritos entre mediados de los años sesenta y comienzos de los setenta. Con la sensibilidad estructuralista propia de ese período, el filósofo plantea aquí preguntas decisivas: ¿qué lugar ocupa el loco en las sociedades occidentales y de qué modo opera su exclusión? ¿Qué vínculo une la locura con las formas del lenguaje y la escritura, ya sea en el teatro barroco, en la radicalidad de Antonin Artaud o en los dispositivos singulares de Raymond Roussel? Y, más aún, ¿cómo pensar la literatura cuando el lenguaje deja de ser un simple vehículo de representación para afirmarse en su propia materialidad?
Establecida a partir de manuscritos y registros conservados en la Biblioteca Nacional de Francia y en la Universidad de California en Berkeley, esta edición permite acceder a documentos hasta ahora dispersos o inaccesibles del pensador francés. Sus lecturas de Honoré de Balzac y Gustave Flaubert, junto con el trasfondo de su diálogo con Georges Bataille, iluminan obras fundamentales y revelan un proyecto intelectual en continuo desplazamiento. Más que complementar sus libros de mayor renombre, Locura, lenguaje, literatura explora una zona particularmente fértil de su trabajo, donde es más visible que nunca la audacia y la vigencia de una reflexión que transformó nuestra manera de comprender la relación entre lenguaje y mundo.
Introducción de Judith Revel
La locura, el lenguaje y la literatura constituyen uno de los núcleos más intensos y persistentes del pensamiento de Michel Foucault. De ello da cuenta este volumen, que reúne trece textos fundamentales –en su mayoría inéditos– escritos entre mediados de los años sesenta y comienzos de los setenta. Con la sensibilidad estructuralista propia de ese período, el filósofo plantea aquí preguntas decisivas: ¿qué lugar ocupa el loco en las sociedades occidentales y de qué modo opera su exclusión? ¿Qué vínculo une la locura con las formas del lenguaje y la escritura, ya sea en el teatro barroco, en la radicalidad de Antonin Artaud o en los dispositivos singulares de Raymond Roussel? Y, más aún, ¿cómo pensar la literatura cuando el lenguaje deja de ser un simple vehículo de representación para afirmarse en su propia materialidad?
Establecida a partir de manuscritos y registros conservados en la Biblioteca Nacional de Francia y en la Universidad de California en Berkeley, esta edición permite acceder a documentos hasta ahora dispersos o inaccesibles del pensador francés. Sus lecturas de Honoré de Balzac y Gustave Flaubert, junto con el trasfondo de su diálogo con Georges Bataille, iluminan obras fundamentales y revelan un proyecto intelectual en continuo desplazamiento. Más que complementar sus libros de mayor renombre, Locura, lenguaje, literatura explora una zona particularmente fértil de su trabajo, donde es más visible que nunca la audacia y la vigencia de una reflexión que transformó nuestra manera de comprender la relación entre lenguaje y mundo.
360 pages, Paperback
Published September 22, 2025
About the author
Michel Foucault
811 books6,830 followersPaul-Michel Foucault was a French philosopher, historian of ideas, writer, political activist, and literary critic. Foucault's theories primarily address the relationships between power and knowledge, and how they are used as a form of social control through societal institutions. Though often cited as a structuralist and postmodernist, Foucault rejected these labels. His thought has influenced academics, especially those working in communication studies, anthropology, psychology, sociology, criminology, cultural studies, literary theory, feminism, Marxism and critical theory.
Born in Poitiers, France, into an upper-middle-class family, Foucault was educated at the Lycée Henri-IV, at the École Normale Supérieure, where he developed an interest in philosophy and came under the influence of his tutors Jean Hyppolite and Louis Althusser, and at the University of Paris (Sorbonne), where he earned degrees in philosophy and psychology. After several years as a cultural diplomat abroad, he returned to France and published his first major book, The History of Madness (1961). After obtaining work between 1960 and 1966 at the University of Clermont-Ferrand, he produced The Birth of the Clinic (1963) and The Order of Things (1966), publications that displayed his increasing involvement with structuralism, from which he later distanced himself. These first three histories exemplified a historiographical technique Foucault was developing called "archaeology".
From 1966 to 1968, Foucault lectured at the University of Tunis before returning to France, where he became head of the philosophy department at the new experimental university of Paris VIII. Foucault subsequently published The Archaeology of Knowledge (1969). In 1970, Foucault was admitted to the Collège de France, a membership he retained until his death. He also became active in several left-wing groups involved in campaigns against racism and human rights abuses and for penal reform. Foucault later published Discipline and Punish (1975) and The History of Sexuality (1976), in which he developed archaeological and genealogical methods that emphasized the role that power plays in society.
Foucault died in Paris from complications of HIV/AIDS; he became the first public figure in France to die from complications of the disease. His partner Daniel Defert founded the AIDES charity in his memory.
Born in Poitiers, France, into an upper-middle-class family, Foucault was educated at the Lycée Henri-IV, at the École Normale Supérieure, where he developed an interest in philosophy and came under the influence of his tutors Jean Hyppolite and Louis Althusser, and at the University of Paris (Sorbonne), where he earned degrees in philosophy and psychology. After several years as a cultural diplomat abroad, he returned to France and published his first major book, The History of Madness (1961). After obtaining work between 1960 and 1966 at the University of Clermont-Ferrand, he produced The Birth of the Clinic (1963) and The Order of Things (1966), publications that displayed his increasing involvement with structuralism, from which he later distanced himself. These first three histories exemplified a historiographical technique Foucault was developing called "archaeology".
From 1966 to 1968, Foucault lectured at the University of Tunis before returning to France, where he became head of the philosophy department at the new experimental university of Paris VIII. Foucault subsequently published The Archaeology of Knowledge (1969). In 1970, Foucault was admitted to the Collège de France, a membership he retained until his death. He also became active in several left-wing groups involved in campaigns against racism and human rights abuses and for penal reform. Foucault later published Discipline and Punish (1975) and The History of Sexuality (1976), in which he developed archaeological and genealogical methods that emphasized the role that power plays in society.
Foucault died in Paris from complications of HIV/AIDS; he became the first public figure in France to die from complications of the disease. His partner Daniel Defert founded the AIDES charity in his memory.
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February 5, 2026
Ideas interesantes que se han ido desarrollando tmbn en algunas corrientes d psicología. Pero escribe como un elitista incomprensible chico…
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