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Sophistical Practice - Toward a Consistent Relativism (Hardcover)
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Sophistical Practice - Toward a Consistent Relativism (Hardcover)
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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.
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