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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 (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Fordham University Press, 2014.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.