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Author: Barbara Cassin ,
Michael Syrotinski
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Imprint: Fordham University Press
ISBN: 9780823285754
ISBN 10: 0823285758
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 22 October 2019
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Barbara Cassin's truly original and groundbreaking engagement with Greek philosophy, and particularly with sophistry, constitutes one of the milestones of contemporary philosophy. Her book on Jacques Lacan is a paramount example of this achievement, as well as of the novelty and productivity of the perspective opened by it. It is a most compelling reading of Lacan's oeuvre, pursuing and revealing its unique and radical edge. -- Alenka Zupancic, author of What IS Sex? Cassin's most adventurous-and beautifully written-work to date, a far-reaching meditation on the presence in modern thought of the sophistic discourses that philosophy has never succeeded in consigning to the past. -- Andrew Parker, Rutgers Unviersity
Cassin's most adventurous-and beautifully written-work to date, a far-reaching meditation on the presence in modern thought of the sophistic discourses that philosophy has never succeeded in consigning to the past. -- Andrew Parker, Rutgers Unviersity Barbara Cassin's truly original and groundbreaking engagement with Greek philosophy, and particularly with sophistry, constitutes one of the milestones of contemporary philosophy. Her book on Jacques Lacan is a paramount example of this achievement, as well as of the novelty and productivity of the perspective opened by it. It is a most compelling reading of Lacan's oeuvre, pursuing and revealing its unique and radical edge. -- Alenka Zupancic, author of What IS Sex?
Cassin's most adventurous-and beautifully written-work to date, a far-reaching meditation on the presence in modern thought of the sophistic discourses that philosophy has never succeeded in consigning to the past. * Andrew Parker, Rutgers Unviersity * Barbara Cassin's truly original and groundbreaking engagement with Greek philosophy, and particularly with sophistry, constitutes one of the milestones of contemporary philosophy. Her book on Jacques Lacan is a paramount example of this achievement, as well as of the novelty and productivity of the perspective opened by it. It is a most compelling reading of Lacan's oeuvre, pursuing and revealing its unique and radical edge. * Alenka Zupancic, author of What IS Sex? *
Author Information
Barbara Cassin (Author) Barbara Cassin is Director of Research at the CNRS in Paris and a member of the Académie Française. 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.
