Jacques the Sophist: Lacan, Logos, and Psychoanalysis

by Barbara Cassin

Book Overview

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 take seriously equivocations, jokes, and unfinishable projects of interpretation.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823285758
• ISBN13: 9780823285754
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"