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Sophistical Practice

Author : Barbara Cassin
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823256413
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)

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Download or read book Sophistical Practice written by Barbara Cassin and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2014-04-03 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9819941091
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book Education for Everyday Life written by Carl Anders Säfström and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sophistical Rhetoric in Classical Greece

Author : John Poulakos
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 1611171806
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (111 download)

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Download or read book Sophistical Rhetoric in Classical Greece written by John Poulakos and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2012-12-07 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Cambridge Companion to the Sophists

Author : Joshua Billings
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108494684
Total Pages : 523 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the Sophists written by Joshua Billings and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-06-30 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces the Sophists and their time: a period of cultural enlightenment in thought, language, pedagogy, and performance.

The Rhetoric of Aristotle

Author : Aristotle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Rhetoric of Aristotle written by Aristotle and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Renaissance Truths

Author : Alan R. Perreiah
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317066367
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Renaissance Truths written by Alan R. Perreiah and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-23 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though they have long been portrayed as arch rivals, Alan Perreiah here argues that humanists and scholastics were in fact working in complementary ways toward some of the same goals. After locating the two traditions within the early modern search for the perfect language, this study re-defines the lines of disagreement between them. For humanists the perfect language was a revived Classical Latin. For scholastics it was a practical logic adapted to the needs of education. Succeeding chapters examine the concepts of linguistic meaning and truth in Lorenzo Valla’s Dialectical Disputations and Juan Luis Vives’ De disciplinis. The third chapter offers a new interpretation of Vives’ Adversus pseudodialecticos as itself an exercise in scholastic sophistry. Against this humanistic background, the study takes up the concepts of meaning and truth in Paul of Venice’s Logica parva, a popular scholastic textbook in the Quattrocento. To advance recent research on language pedagogy in the Renaissance, it clarifies the connections between truth and translation and shows how scholastic logic performed an essential task in the early modern university: it was a translational language that enabled students who spoke mainly their regional vernaculars to learn the language of university discourse. A conclusion reviews some major themes of the study-e.g., linguistic determinism and relativity, vernacularity and translation, semantical vs. epistemic truth-and evaluates the achievements of humanism and scholasticism according to appropriate criteria for a perfect language.

The Journal of Classical and Sacred Philology

Author : Joseph Barber Lightfoot
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108053521
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book The Journal of Classical and Sacred Philology written by Joseph Barber Lightfoot and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-02 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1855 issues of a short-lived academic journal, published the same year, illuminates classics and theology in mid-nineteenth-century Cambridge.

The Journal of Classical and Sacred Philology

Author : Joseph Barber Lightfoot
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Journal of Classical and Sacred Philology written by Joseph Barber Lightfoot and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Journal of Classical and Sacred Philology

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 840 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)

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Google Me

Author : Barbara Cassin
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823278085
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)

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Download or read book Google Me written by Barbara Cassin and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Google is a champion of cultural democracy, but without culture and without democracy.” In this witty and polemical critique the philosopher Barbara Cassin takes aim at Google and our culture of big data. Enlisting her formidable knowledge of the rhetorical tradition, Cassin demolishes the Google myth of a “good” tech company and its “democracy of clicks,” laying bare the philosophical poverty and political naiveté that underwrites its founding slogans: “Organize the world’s information,” and “Don’t be evil.” For Cassin, this conjunction of globalizing knowledge and moral imperative is frighteningly similar to the way American demagogues justify their own universalizing mission before the world. While sensitive to the possibilities of technology and to Google’s playful appeal, Cassin shows what is lost when a narrow worship of information becomes dogma, such that research comes to mean data mining and other languages become provincial “flavors” folded into an impoverished Globish, or global English.

Dialectics

Author : Nicholas Rescher
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110321289
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Dialectics written by Nicholas Rescher and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few ideas have played a more continuously prominent role throughout the history of philosophy than that of dialectic, which has figured on the philosophical agenda from the time of the Presocratics. The present book explores the philosophical promise of dialectic, especially in its dialogical version associated with disputation, debate, and rational controversy. The book’s deliberations examine what lessons can be drawn to exhibit the utility of dialectical proceedings for the theory of knowledge in reminding us that the building-up of knowledge is an interpersonally interactive enterprise subject to communal standards.

Renaissance-Rhetorik / Renaissance Rhetoric

Author : Heinrich F. Plett
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110857189
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Renaissance-Rhetorik / Renaissance Rhetoric written by Heinrich F. Plett and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-07-09 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Lectures on the Will to Know

Author : M. Foucault
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137044861
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Lectures on the Will to Know written by M. Foucault and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first of his annual series of lectures at the Collège de France, Foucault develops a vigorous Nietzschean history of the will to know through an analysis of changing procedures of truth, legal forms, and class struggles in ancient Greece.

Early Greek Ethics

Author : David Conan Wolfsdorf
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191076414
Total Pages : 751 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Early Greek Ethics written by David Conan Wolfsdorf and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 751 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early Greek Ethics is devoted to Greek philosophical ethics in its formative period, from the last decades of the sixth century BCE to the beginning of the fourth century BCE. It begins with the inception of Greek philosophical ethics and ends immediately before the composition of Plato's and Aristotle's mature ethical works Republic and Nicomachean Ethics. The ancient contributors include Presocratics such as Heraclitus, Democritus, and figures of the early Pythagorean tradition such as Empedocles and Archytas of Tarentum, who have previously been studied principally for their metaphysical, cosmological, and natural philosophical ideas. Socrates and his lesser known associates such as Antisthenes of Athens and Aristippus of Cyrene also feature, as well as sophists such as Gorgias of Leontini, Antiphon of Athens, and Prodicus of Ceos, and anonymous texts such as the Pythagorean Acusmata, Dissoi Logoi, Anonymus Iamblichi, and On Law and Justice. In addition to chapters on these individuals and texts, the volume explores select fields and topics especially influential to ethical philosophical thought in the formative period and later, such as early Greek medicine, music, friendship, justice and the afterlife, and early Greek ethnography. Consisting of thirty chapters composed by an international team of leading philosophers and classicists, Early Greek Ethics is the first volume in any language devoted to philosophical ethics in the formative period.

The New Publicness of Education

Author : Carl Anders Säfström
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000886646
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book The New Publicness of Education written by Carl Anders Säfström and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-06-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores democratic possibilities for education after the critique of the impact of neo-liberalism on educational policy and practice. Together, the authors investigate the contours of a ‘new publicness’ of education. This edited volume refers to well-established critiques that expose how neoliberal governance has normalised the privatisation of public life and undermined the public nature of education. Through historical reconstruction, theoretical exploration, and analyses of educational policies and practices, chapters take a novel approach by investigating democratic possibilities within and beyond the current neoliberal hegemony in education. Covering a range of educational settings – from early childhood education through to higher and professional education – chapters spotlight the Irish educational and political context, as well as exploring international implications. Ultimately, this book opens up new avenues for discussion around public education and its future, and will therefore be of great interest to researchers and students in the fields of educational theory, education politics, educational policy and democratic education.

Writing Histories of Rhetoric

Author : Victor J. Vitanza
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 080938504X
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Writing Histories of Rhetoric written by Victor J. Vitanza and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays, edited by Victor J. Vitanza, is a historiography of rhetoric, summarizing what has recently been accomplished in the revision of traditional histories of rhetoric and discussing what might be accomplished in the future. Featuring a variety of approaches—classical, revisionary, and avant-garde—it includes articles by Janet M. Atwill, James A. Berlin, William A. Covino, Sharon Crowley, Hans Kellner, John Poulakos, Takis Poulakos, John Schilb, Jane Sutton, Kathleen Ethel Welch, Lynn Worsham, and Victor J. Vitanza. In the first essay, Sharon Crowley identifies the major players and primary issues in a chronological narrative of the debate about the writing of the history of rhetoric that has arisen between traditionalists / essentialists and revisionists/constructionists. In recent years, traditionalists have demanded a more complete and accurate history, while revisionists have sought a critical understanding of the various epistemological-ideological grounds upon which a history of rhetoric had been and could be constructed. Revisionists, in their search for multiple, contestatory histories, have begun to critique one another, breaking into two general groups: one favoring a political-social program, the other resisting and disrupting such an approach. Vitanza echoes Crowley’s review of this ongoing debate by asking a crucial question: What exactly does it mean to be a revisionist historian? By combining the disintegration of various revisionist and subversive positions into a communal "we," he asks an additional question: Who is the "we" writing histories of rhetoric? The essays that follow give a rich answer to Vitanza’s questions. They bring the writing of histories of rhetoric into the larger area of postmodern theory, raising neglected issues of race, gender, and class. Written with a variety of intentions, some of the essays are expository and highly argumentative while others are manifestos, innovative and far-reaching in tone. Still others are summaries and background studies, providing useful information to both the novice student and the experienced scholar. This book, situated at a juncture between two disciplines, composition studies and speech, will be a landmark collection for many years.

Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us

Author : Simon Critchley
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0525564640
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us written by Simon Critchley and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the moderator of The New York Times philosophy blog "The Stone," a book that argues that if we want to understand ourselves we have to go back to theater, to the stage of our lives Tragedy presents a world of conflict and troubling emotion, a world where private and public lives collide and collapse. A world where morality is ambiguous and the powerful humiliate and destroy the powerless. A world where justice always seems to be on both sides of a conflict and sugarcoated words serve as cover for clandestine operations of violence. A world rather like our own. The ancient Greeks hold a mirror up to us in which we see all the desolation and delusion of our lives but also the terrifying beauty and intensity of existence. This is not a time for consolation prizes and the fatuous banalities of the self-help industry and pop philosophy. Tragedy allows us to glimpse, in its harsh and unforgiving glare, the burning core of our aliveness. If we give ourselves the chance to look at tragedy, we might see further and more clearly.