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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2014.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.