Sophistical practice : toward a consistent relativism

Content: Acknowledgments       Introduction: Towards a New Topology of Philosophy       I. Unusual Presocratics      1. Who's Afraid of the Sophists? Against Ethical Correctness       2. Speak if You Are a Man, or the Transcendantal Exclusion       3. Seeing Helen in Every Woman        II. Sophistics, Rhetorics, Politics       4. Rhetorical Turns in Ancient Greece      5. Topos/Kairos, Two Modes of Invention      6. Time of Deliberation and Space of Power: Athens and Rome, the First Conflict        III. Sophistical Trends in Political Philosophy       7. From Organism to Picnic: Which Consensus for Which City?       8. Aristotle With and Against Kant on the Idea of Nature       9. Paradigms of the Past in Arendt and Heidegger       IV. Performance and Performative       10. How To Really Do Things With Words. Performance Before the Performative      11. The Performative Without Condition, A University Sans Appel (with Ph. Buttgen)      12. Genres and Genders. Woman/Philosopher: Identity as Strategy      13. Philosophizing in Languages       V. "Enough of the Truth For"      14. "Enough of the Truth ForEL" On the Truth and Reconciliation Commission      15. Politics of Memory. On the Treatment of Hate      16. Google and Cultural Democracy      17. Relativity of Translation and Relativism       Notes      Index