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Jacques the Sophist: Lacan, Logos, and Psychoanalysis (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780823285747)
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xSophistry, 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: Barbara Cassin
ISBN-10: 082328574X
ISBN-13: 9780823285747
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/22/2019
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.42d
By Barbara Cassin
xBarbara Cassin (Author)
Barbara Cassin is Director of Research at the CNRS in Paris and a member of the Acad駑ie Fran軋ise. Her widely discussed Dictionary of Untranslatables has been translated into seven languages, and her Nostalgia: When Are we Ever at Home? won the 2015 French Voices Grand Prize. Her most recent books to appear in English are Google Me: One-Click Democracy and, with Alain Badiou, There's No Such Thing as a Sexual Relationship. Michael Syrotinski (Translator)
Michael Syrotinski is Marshal Professor of French at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. He is the author of Deconstruction and the Postcolonial and cotranslator of Cassin's Dictionary of Untranslatables.
Barbara Cassin is Director of Research at the CNRS in Paris and a member of the Acad駑ie Fran軋ise. Her widely discussed Dictionary of Untranslatables has been translated into seven languages, and her Nostalgia: When Are we Ever at Home? won the 2015 French Voices Grand Prize. Her most recent books to appear in English are Google Me: One-Click Democracy and, with Alain Badiou, There's No Such Thing as a Sexual Relationship. Michael Syrotinski (Translator)
Michael Syrotinski is Marshal Professor of French at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. He is the author of Deconstruction and the Postcolonial and cotranslator of Cassin's Dictionary of Untranslatables.
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