Sophistical Practice : Toward a Consistent Relativism / Barbara Cassin.
Cassin, Barbara, author.
2014
B288 .C377 2014
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Title Sophistical Practice : Toward a Consistent Relativism / Barbara Cassin.
Author Cassin, Barbara, author.
ISBN 9780823256426
DOI https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823256426
Published New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2014]
Copyright ©2014
Language English
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Description 1 online resource (384 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1515/9780823256426 doi
Call Number B288 .C377 2014
Dewey Decimal Classification 183.1
Summary Sophistics is the paradigm of a discourse that does things with words. It is not pure rhetoric, as Plato wants us to believe, but it provides an alternative to the philosophical mainstream. A sophistic history of philosophy questions the orthodox philosophical history of philosophy: that of ontology and truth in itself.In this book, we discover unusual Presocratics, wreaking havoc with the fetish of true and false. Their logoi perform politics and perform reality. Their sophistic practice can shed crucial light on contemporary events, such as the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa, where, to "e Desmond Tutu, "words,language, and rhetoric do things," creating things like the new "rainbow people." Transitional justice requires a consistent and sustainable relativism: not Truth, but truth for, and enough of the truth for there to be a community.Philosophy itself is about words before it is about concepts. Language manifests itself in reality only as multiplicity; different languages perform different types of worlds; and difficulties of translation are but symptoms of these differences. This desacralized untranslatability undermines and deconstructs the Heideggerian statement that there is a historical language of philosophy that is Greek by essence (being the only language able to say what "is") and today is German.Sophistical Practice constitutes a major contribution to the debate among philosophical pluralism, unitarism, and pragmatism. It will change how we discuss such words as city, truth, and politics. Philologically and philosophically rethinking the sophistical gesture, relying on performance and translation, it proposes a newparadigm for the human sciences.
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Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Toward a New Topology of Philosophy
Part I. Unusual Presocratics
one. Who's Afraid of the Sophists?: Against Ethical Correctness
Two. Speak If You Are a Man, or the Transcendental Exclusion
Three. Seeing Helen in Every Woman: Woman and Word
Part II. Sophistics, Rhetorics, Politics
Four. Rhetorical Turns in Ancient Greece
Five. Topos/Kairos: Two Modes Of Invention
Six. Time of Deliberation and Space of Power: Athens and Rome, the First Conflict
Part III. Sophistical Trends in Political Philosophy
Seven. From Organism to Picnic: Which Consensus for Which City?
Eight. Aristotle with and Against Kant on the Idea of Human Nature
Part IV. Performance and Performative
Ten. How to Really Do Things with Words: Per for mance Before the Performative
Eleven. The Performative Without Condition: A University sans appel
Twelve. Genres and Genders. Woman/Philosopher: Identity as Strategy
Thirteen. Philosophizing in Tongues
Part V. "Enough of the Truth For . . ."
Fourteen. "Enough of the Truth For. . .": On the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Fifteen. Politics of Memory: On the Treatment of Hate
Sixteen. Google and Cultural Democracy
Seventeen. The Relativity of Translation and Relativism
Notes
Index

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