Cervantes in the Early Foucault
Abstract
Foucault’s interest in Cervantes appears in a new light after the posthumous publication of several early works in recent years: La grande étrangère (2013), Folie, langage, littérature (2019) and Le Discours philosophique (2024). Foucault’s most notable early works, such as Madness and Civilization (1961) and, especially, The Order of Things (1966), already clustered his interest in Cervantes around two main foci: Don Quixote’s literary madness on the one hand and the fundamental role of Cervantes in the constitution of literature as a discourse of language turned towards itself, on the other hand. However, Foucault’s recently published works from the second half of the 1960s offer new insights on these questions, nuancing, completing and going beyond what had been already said in his major works of 1961 and 1966.
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