Sophistical practice toward a consistent relativism / Barbara Cassin.
| Author/creator | Cassin, Barbara |
| Format | Electronic |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication Info | New York : Fordham University Press, 2014. |
| Description | viii, 370 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| 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 note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2014932516 |
| ISBN | 9780823256389 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 0823256383 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 9780823256396 (paperback) |
| ISBN | 0823256391 (paperback) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |