Jacques the Sophist: Lacan, Logos, and Psychoanalysis by Barbara Cassin, translated by Michael SyrotinskiEnglish |...
Sophistry, since Plato and Aristotle, has been philosophy's negative alter ego, its bad other. Yet sophistry's emphasis on words and performativity over the fetishization of truth makes it an essential part of our world's cultural, political, and philosophical repertoire. In this dazzling book, Barbara Cassin, who has done more than...