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In an appendix added to the 1972 edition of his History of Madness, Foucault disputed Derrida's interpretation of his work, and accused Derrida of practicing " a historically well-determined little pedagogy [...] which teaches the student that there is nothing outside the text [...].

A pedagogy which inversely gives to the voice of the masters that infinite sovereignty that allows it indefinitely to re-say the text.

" According to historian Carlo Ginzburg, Foucault may have written The Order of Things ( 1966 ) and The Archaeology of Knowledge partly under the stimulus of Derrida's criticism.

Carlo Ginzburg briefly labeled Derrida's criticism in Cogito and the History of Madness, as " facile, nihilistic objections ," without giving further argumentation.