Trevor Lock week as the British National Party (BNP). He disproved Descartes' maxim "Cogito ergo sum" by tipping a glass of water over his head, horrifying the front row of the audience. In 2009, Trevor Lock performed a warm up show for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival at a fundraiser for Boxmoor Cricket Club. He had two shows in the 2009 Edinburgh fringe; a stand up show called "Some Kind of Fool" and a play titled "The One and the Many" Lock presents a live comedy night 'Trevor Lock's Philosophy Society' at the Ku Bar in Lisle Street near Leicester Square. In early
Cogito and the History of Madness his point of departure for "Cogito and the History of Madness" is Foucault's 1961 book "Folie et déraison". Derrida's paper primarily relies on two sections of Foucault's work, the original 1961 preface in which Foucault makes a number of general comments about the book, setting forth his intentions and methodology, and two and a half pages at the start of the second chapter where Foucault links Descartes to an historical event that silenced madness at the end of the classical age. Foucault's 1961 text was heavily abridged for a popular edition in 1964 that formed the basis for Richard Howard's