Jacques the Sophist : Lacan, Logos, and Psychoanalysis.
Sophistry has long been philosophy's bad other, yet in many ways, its emphasis on words and performativity remain more important than philosophical Truth. This book celebrates an underground survival of the sophistical tradition in the work of work of psychoanalysis, and its determination to ta...
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2019.
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Prologue: "How Kind of You to Recognize Me"
- 1. Doxography and Psychoanalysis, or Relegating Truth to the Lowly Status It Deserves
- 2. The Presence of the Sophist in Our Time
- 3. Logos- Pharmakon
- 4. Sense and Nonsense, or Lacan's Anti- Aristotelianism
- 5. The Jouissance of Language, or Lacan's Ab- Aristotelianism
- Epilogue: The Drowning of a Fish
- Acknowledgments
- Translator's Note: Performing Untranslatability
- Notes
- Index