LEADER 05224nam 2200829 450 001 9910822431403321 005 20211005064522.0 010 $a0-8232-5641-3 010 $a0-8232-5639-1 010 $a0-8232-5642-1 010 $a0-8232-6135-2 010 $a0-8232-5640-5 024 7 $a10.1515/9780823256426 035 $a(CKB)3710000000094272 035 $a(EBL)3239877 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001329701 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12433204 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001329701 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11326593 035 $a(PQKB)10041144 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000862543 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3239877 035 $a(DE-B1597)554921 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780823256426 035 $a(OCoLC)878144572 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse58909 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1741695 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3239877 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10852121 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL727818 035 $a(OCoLC)923764348 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4704859 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1741695 035 $a(OCoLC)908079980 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000094272 100 $a20140331h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSophistical practice $etoward a consistent relativism /$fBarbara Cassin 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aNew York :$cFordham University Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (384 p.) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a1-322-96536-6 311 $a0-8232-5638-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: 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. 330 $aSophistics 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 and truth in itself.In this book, we discover unusual Presocratics, wreaking havoc with the fetish of true and false. Their logoi perform politics and perform reality. Their sophistic practice can shed crucial light on contemporary events, such as the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa, where, to "e Desmond Tutu, ?words,language, and rhetoric do things,? creating things like the new ?rainbow people.? Transitional justice requires a consistent and sustainable relativism: not Truth, but truth for, and enough of the truth for there to be a community.Philosophy itself is about words before it is about concepts. Language manifests itself in reality only as multiplicity; different languages perform different types of worlds; and difficulties of translation are but symptoms of these differences. This desacralized untranslatability undermines and deconstructs the Heideggerian statement that there is a historical language of philosophy that is Greek by essence (being the only language able to say what ?is?) and today is German.Sophistical Practice constitutes a major contribution to the debate among philosophical pluralism, unitarism, and pragmatism. It will change how we discuss such words as city, truth, and politics. Philologically and philosophically rethinking the sophistical gesture, relying on performance and translation, it proposes a newparadigm for the human sciences. 606 $aSophists (Greek philosophy) 610 $aTRC (Truth and Reconciliation Commission). 610 $aperformance. 610 $aperformative. 610 $apresocratics. 610 $arhetorics. 610 $asophistic. 610 $atransitional justice. 610 $atranslation. 610 $aunstranslatable. 615 0$aSophists (Greek philosophy) 676 $a183.1 700 $aCassin$b Barbara$0157433 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910822431403321 996 $aSophistical practice$93915952 997 $aUNINA