Jacques The Sophist

Author : Barbara Cassin
Publisher : Fordham University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780823285778

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Jacques the Sophist by Barbara Cassin Pdf

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 anyone to reclaim a mode of thought that traditional philosophy disavows, shows how the sophistical tradition has survived in the work of psychoanalysis. In a highly original rereading of the writings and seminars of Jacques Lacan, together with works of Freud and others, Cassin shows how psychoanalysis, like the sophists, challenges the very foundations of scientific rationality. In taking seriously equivocations, jokes, and unfinishable projects of interpretation, the analyst, like the sophist, allows performance, signifier, and inconsistency to reshape truth. This witty, brilliant tour de force celebrates how psychoanalysts have become our culture’s key dissidents and register, in Lacan’s words, “the presence of the sophist in our time.”

Author : CASSIN.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0823288773

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JACQUES THE SOPHIST by CASSIN. Pdf

Author : Shirley Zisser
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781003845881

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The Linguistic Turn of the English Renaissance by Shirley Zisser Pdf

The Linguistic Turn of the English Renaissance: A Lacanian Perspective examines a selection of cultural phenomena of the English Renaissance, all of which include a focus on language, from a Lacanian perspective. The book examines four inter-related cultural symptoms of the English Renaissance: the paucity of painting, the interest in rhetoric, the emergence of a literary style focusing on form and a fascination with the myth of Orpheus. The book argues that the English Renaissance, an apex of rhetorical theory, can offer psychoanalysis further knowledge concerning the intrication of language and flesh, especially where feminine jouissance is at stake. These language-centred phenomena emerge against the backdrop of a peculiar configuration of the visual field, which in contrast to other cultures of the European Renaissance is largely barren of painting other than portraiture. The book will be of interest to psychoanalysts, scholars of Renaissance culture and those interested in the psychoanalytic study of culture.

Author : Jeremy Tambling
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350184169

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The Bloomsbury Handbook to Literature and Psychoanalysis by Jeremy Tambling Pdf

Providing the most comprehensive examination of the two-way traffic between literature and psychoanalysis to date, this handbook looks at how each defines the other as well as addressing the key thinkers in psychoanalytic theory (Freud, Klein, Lacan, and the schools of thought each of these has generated). It examines the debts that these psychoanalytic traditions have to literature, and offers plentiful case-studies of literature's influence from psychoanalysis. Engaging with critical issues such as madness, memory, and colonialism, with reference to texts from authors as diverse as Shakespeare, Goethe, and Virginia Woolf, this collection is admirably broad in its scope and wide-ranging in its geographical coverage. It thinks about the impact of psychoanalysis in a wide variety of literatures as well as in film, and critical and cultural theory.

Author : Patrick Crowley,Shirley Jordan
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781789624755

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What Forms Can Do by Patrick Crowley,Shirley Jordan Pdf

How does form propose a bridge between the text and the world beyond? This volume investigates the agency of form across a spectrum of twentieth- and twenty-first century French and Francophone writings, renewing the engagement with form that has been a key feature of French cultural production and of analysis in French studies.

Author : Alain Badiou,Barbara Cassin
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780231544429

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There’s No Such Thing as a Sexual Relationship by Alain Badiou,Barbara Cassin Pdf

Published in 1973, "L'Etourdit" was one of the French philosopher Jacques Lacan's most important works. The book posed questions that traversed the entire body of Lacan's psychoanalytical explorations, including his famous idea that "there is no such thing as a sexual relationship," which seeks to undermine our certainties about intimacy and reality. In There's No Such Thing as a Sexual Relationship, Alain Badiou and Barbara Cassin take possession of Lacan's short text, thinking "with" Lacan about his propositions and what kinds of questions they raise in relation to knowledge. Cassin considers the relationship of the real to language through a Sophist lens, while the Platonist Badiou unpacks philosophical claims about truth. Each of their contributions echoes back to one another, offering new ways of thinking about Lacan, his seminal ideas, and his role in advancing philosophical thought.

Author : A. J Bartlett
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780748682072

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Lacan Deleuze Badiou by A. J Bartlett Pdf

'Lacan Deleuze Badiou' guides us through the crucial, under-remarked interrelations between these three thinkers, identifying the conceptual passages, connections and disjunctions that underlie the often superficial statements of critique, indifference or

Author : James A. Harris
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 637 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780521837255

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Hume by James A. Harris Pdf

This is the first intellectual biography of the British philosopher and historian David Hume.

Author : Jacques Lacan
Publisher : Polity
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 150952360X

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Transference by Jacques Lacan Pdf

"Alcibiades attempted to seduce Socrates, he wanted to make him, and in the most openly avowed way possible, into someone instrumental and subordinate to what? To the object of Alcibiades's desire – ágalma, the good object. I would go even further. How can we analysts fail to recognize what is involved? He says quite clearly: Socrates has the good object in his stomach. Here Socrates is nothing but the envelope in which the object of desire is found. It is in order to clearly emphasize that he is nothing but this envelope that Alcibiades tries to show that Socrates is desire's serf in his relations with Alcibiades, that Socrates is enslaved to Alcibiades by his desire. Although Alcibiades was aware that Socrates desired him, he wanted to see Socrates's desire manifest itself in a sign, in order to know that the other – the object, ágalma – was at his mercy. Now, it is precisely because he failed in this undertaking that Alcibiades disgraces himself, and makes of his confession something that is so affectively laden. The daemon of Αἰδώς (Aidós), Shame, about which I spoke to you before in this context, is what intervenes here. This is what is violated here. The most shocking secret is unveiled before everyone; the ultimate mainspring of desire, which in love relations must always be more or less dissimulated, is revealed – its aim is the fall of the Other, A, into the other, a." Jacques Lacan

Author : Jacques Derrida
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226355252

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Heidegger by Jacques Derrida Pdf

Few philosophers held greater fascination for Jacques Derrida than Martin Heidegger, and in this book we get an extended look at Derrida’s first real encounters with him. Delivered over nine sessions in 1964 and 1965 at the École Normale Supérieure, these lectures offer a glimpse of the young Derrida first coming to terms with the German philosopher and his magnum opus, Being and Time. They provide not only crucial insight into the gestation of some of Derrida’s primary conceptual concerns—indeed, it is here that he first uses, with some hesitation, the word “deconstruction”—but an analysis of Being and Time that is of extraordinary value to readers of Heidegger or anyone interested in modern philosophy. Derrida performs an almost surgical reading of the notoriously difficult text, marrying pedagogical clarity with patient rigor and acting as a lucid guide through the thickets of Heidegger’s prose. At this time in intellectual history, Heidegger was still somewhat unfamiliar to French readers, and Being and Time had only been partially translated into French. Here Derrida mostly uses his own translations, giving his own reading of Heidegger that directly challenges the French existential reception initiated earlier by Sartre. He focuses especially on Heidegger’s Destruktion (which Derrida would translate both into “solicitation” and “deconstruction”) of the history of ontology, and indeed of ontology as such, concentrating on passages that call for a rethinking of the place of history in the question of being, and developing a radical account of the place of metaphoricity in Heidegger’s thinking. This is a rare window onto Derrida’s formative years, and in it we can already see the philosopher we’ve come to recognize—one characterized by a bravura of exegesis and an inventiveness of thought that are particularly and singularly his.

Author : Jacques Taminiaux
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1997-12-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0791438627

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The Thracian Maid and the Professional Thinker by Jacques Taminiaux Pdf

Argues that Hannah Arendt's two major philosophical works, The Human Condition and The Life of the Mind, reveal not a dependency upon Heidegger, but rather a constant and increasing ironic debate with him.

Author : Barbara Cassin
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780823256419

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Sophistical Practice by Barbara Cassin Pdf

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.

Author : Jacques Derrida,Anne Dufourmantelle
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0804734062

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Of Hospitality by Jacques Derrida,Anne Dufourmantelle Pdf

Consisting of two texts on facing pages, the form of this presentation of two 1996 lectures on hospitality by Jacques Derrida is a self-conscious enactment of its content. Invitation by Anne Dufourmantelle appears on the left (an invitation that of course originates a response), clarifying and inflecting Derrida's "response" on the right.

Author : John Muckelbauer
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780791478400

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The Future of Invention by John Muckelbauer Pdf

Examines the concept of rhetorical invention from an affirmative, nondialectical perspective.

Author : Sean Gaston
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781441164506

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The Impossible Mourning of Jacques Derrida by Sean Gaston Pdf

At the time of his death in 2004, Jacques Derrida was arguably the most influential and the most controversial thinker in contemporary philosophy. But how does one respond to the death of Jacques Derrida? How does one mourn for Derrida, who spent thirty years warning of the dangers of mourning, while insisting that mourning is both unavoidable and impossible? In this original and engaging response to Derrida's death, Sean Gaston re-examines his own relationship with this great thinker and traces his own mourning, while examining the very nature of mourning in Derrida's work. Written in the immediate aftermath of Derrida's death, this insightful and touching account offers a fresh analysis of a vital element of Derrida's thought and a genuine reflection on the implications of Derrida's death for how we will now address his work.