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Sophistical Practice
Author | : Barbara Cassin |
Publsiher | : Fordham Univ Press |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2014-04-03 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780823256419 |
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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 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 quote 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 new paradigm for the human sciences.
Education for Everyday Life
Author | : Carl Anders Säfström |
Publsiher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 111 |
Release | : 2024 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 9789819941094 |
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Sophistical Rhetoric in Classical Greece
Author | : John Poulakos |
Publsiher | : Univ of South Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2012-12-07 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781611171808 |
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An expert in rhetoric offers a new perspective on the ancient concept of sophistry, exploring why Plato, Isocrates, and Aristotle found it objectionable. In Sophistical Rhetoric in Classical Greece, John Poulakos argues that a proper understanding of sophistical rhetoric requires a grasp of three cultural dynamics of the fifth century B.C.: the logic of circumstances, the ethic of competition, and the aesthetic of exhibition. Traced to such phenomena as everyday practices, athletic contests, and dramatic performances, these dynamics defined the role of sophistical rhetoric in Hellenic culture and explain why sophistry has traditionally been understood as inconsistent, agonistic, and ostentatious. In his discussion of ancient responses to sophistical rhetoric, Poulakos observes that Plato, Isocrates, and Aristotle found sophistry morally reprehensible, politically useless, and theoretically incoherent. At the same time, they produced their own version of rhetoric that advocated ethical integrity, political unification, and theoretical coherence. Poulakos explains that these responses and alternative versions were motivated by a search for solutions to such historical problems as moral uncertainty, political instability, and social disorder. Poulakos concludes that sophistical rhetoric was as necessary in its day as its Platonic, Isocratean, and Aristotelian counterparts were in theirs.
Theory Text Context
Author | : Christopher Lyle Johnstone |
Publsiher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 1996-10-03 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0791431088 |
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Leading scholars of classical rhetoric address contemporary topics in Greek rhetoric and oratory.
The Journal of Classical and Sacred Philology
Author | : Joseph Barber Lightfoot,Fenton John Anthony Hort,John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 441 |
Release | : 2012-08-02 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9781108053518 |
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The first three issues of a short-lived academic journal, published in 1854, illuminate classics and theology in mid-nineteenth-century Cambridge.
Imprisoned by History
Author | : Martin L. Davies |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 465 |
Release | : 2009-12-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781135178444 |
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Imprisoned by History: Aspects of Historicized Life offers a controversial analysis, grounded both in philosophical argument and empirical evidence, of what history does in contemporary culture. It endorses and extends the argument that contemporary society is, in historical terms, already historicized, shaped by history – and thus history loses sight of the world, seeing it only as a reflection of its own self-image. By focusing on history as a way of thinking about the world, as a thought-style, this volume delivers a major, decisive, thought-provoking critique of a crucial aspect contemporary culture and the public sphere. By illustrating the ways in which history enforces socially coercive attitudes and forms of behaviour, Martin Davies argues that history is therefore in itself ideological and exists as an instrument of political power. Contending that this ideological function is the "normal" function of professional academic history, he repudiates entirely the conventional view that only biased or "bad" history is ideological. By finding history projecting onto the world and getting reflected back at it the exacting, history-focused thinking and behaviour on which the discipline and the subject rely, he concludes that history’s very "normality" and "objectivity" are inherently compromised and that history works only in terms of its own self-interest.
Early Greek Ethics
Author | : David Conan Wolfsdorf |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 828 |
Release | : 2020-05-22 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780198758679 |
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Early Greek Ethics is the first volume devoted to philosophical ethics in its "formative" period. It explores contributions from the Presocratics, figures of the early Pythagorean tradition, sophists, and anonymous texts, as well as topics influential to ethical philosophical thought such as Greek medicine, music, friendship, and justice.
The Rhetoric of Aristotle
Author | : Aristotle |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 1877 |
Genre | : Rhetoric, Ancient |
ISBN | : UOM:39015009049928 |
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