Sophistical practice toward a consistent relativism / Barbara Cassin.

Author/creator Cassin, Barbara
Format Electronic
EditionFirst edition.
Publication InfoNew York : Fordham University Press, 2014.
Descriptionviii, 370 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Contents Introduction: Toward a new topology of philosophy -- I. Unusual presocratics -- Who's afraid of the sophists? Against ethical correctness -- Speak if you are a man, or the transcendental exclusion -- Seeing Helen in every woman: woman and word -- II. Sophistics, rhetorics, politics -- Rhetorical turns in ancient Greece -- Topos/Kairos: two modes of invention -- Time of deliberation and space of power: Athens and Rome, the first conflict -- III. Sophistical trends in political philosophy -- From organism to picnic: which consensus for which city? -- Aristotle with and against Kant on the idea of human nature -- Greeks and Romans: paradigms of the past in Arendt and Heidegger -- IV. Performance and performative -- How to really do things with words: performance before the performative -- The performative without condition: a university sans appel -- Genres and genders. Woman/philosopher: identity as strategy -- Philosophizing in tongues -- V. "Enough of the truth for ..." -- "Enough of the truth for ... ": on the truth and reconciliation commission -- Politics of memory: on the treatment of hate -- Google and cultural democracy -- The relativity of translation and relativism.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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ISBN9780823256389 (hardcover)
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ISBN0823256391 (paperback)

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