Finite verb to be omitted. For example, in the Latin sentence "cogito ergo sum" ("I think therefore I am") the finite verbs "cogito" and "sum" appear without an explicit subject – the subject is understood to be the first-person personal pronoun, and this information is marked by the way the verbs are inflected. In English, finite verbs lacking subjects are normal in imperative sentences: And also occur in some fragmentary utterances: The relatively poor system of inflectional morphology in English makes the central role that finite verbs play be often not so evident. In other languages, finite verbs are the locus of
Cogito and the History of Madness translation of the text into English as "Madness and Civilization". The abridged 1964 edition removed the pages concerning Descartes on which Derrida had explicitly based his argument in "Cogito and the History of Madness." These pages on Descartes were only made available in English with Jean Khalfa's 2006 translation of Foucault's work on madness. Derrida makes an allusion to the master–slave dialectic in Hegel's "Phenomenology of Spirit" in the opening pages of "Cogito and the History of Madness." Foucault writes at the start of the second chapter of the "History of Madness" of a strange violent event that silenced madness