Sophistry, since Plato and Aristotle, has been philosophy\'s negative alter ego , its bad other.
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.
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.
Sophistry, since Plato and Aristotle, has been philosophy\'s negative alter ego , its bad other