Sophistical Practice: Toward a Consistent Relativism

by Barbara Cassin

Book Overview

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 and truth in itself.

In this book, we discover unusual Presocratics, wreaking havoc with the fetish of true and false. Their logoi perform politics...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823256391
• ISBN13: 9780823256396
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 8.9"