{"product_id":"sophistical-practice-toward-a-consistent-relativism-paperback-2","title":"Sophistical Practice: Toward a Consistent Relativism - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBarbara Cassin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSophistics 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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, \u003cbr\u003elanguage, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePhilosophy 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSophistical 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\u003cbr\u003eparadigm for the human sciences.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBarbara Cassin\u003c\/strong\u003e is Director of Research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris. She is the editor of \u003cem\u003eDictionary of Untranslatables: A Philosophical Lexicon \u003c\/em\u003e(forthcoming).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 384\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 8.9 x 6.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 03, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47345779507449,"sku":"9780823256396","price":56.43,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/MUs2UTZZeTB0RE4xQXppdUs1b0Zwdz09_fff37ded-cf6b-42a0-8109-c69955df0f86.webp?v=1769746171","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/sophistical-practice-toward-a-consistent-relativism-paperback-2","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}