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Sophistical Practice : Toward a Consistent Relativism.

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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cassin, Barbara
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Fordham University Press, 2014.
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  • Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Toward a New Topology of Philosophy; I. Unusual Presocratics; 1. Who's Afraid of the Sophists? Against Ethical Correctness; 2. Speak If You Are a Man, or the Transcendental Exclusion; 3. Seeing Helen in Every Woman: Woman and Word; II. Sophistics, Rhetorics, Politics; 4. Rhetorical Turns in Ancient Greece; 5. Topos/Kairos: Two Modes of Invention; 6. Time of Deliberation and Space of Power: Athens and Rome, the First Conflict; III. Sophistical Trends in Political Philosophy; 7. From Organism to Picnic: Which Consensus for Which City?
  • 8. Aristotle with and Against Kant on the Idea of Human Nature9. Greeks and Romans: Paradigms of the Past in Arendt and Heidegger; IV. Performance and Performative; 10. How to Really Do Things with Words: Performance Before the Performative; 11. The Performative Without Condition: A University sans appel; 12. Genres and Genders. Woman/Philosopher: Identity as Strategy; 13. Philosophizing in Tongues; V. "Enough of the Truth For . . ."; 14. "Enough of the Truth For . . .": On the Truth and Reconciliation Commission; 15. Politics of Memory: On the Treatment of Hate.
  • 16. Google and Cultural Democracy17. The Relativity of Translation and Relativism; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W.