{"product_id":"jacques-the-sophist-lacan-logos-and-psychoanalysis-hardback-9780823285754","title":"Jacques the Sophist; Lacan, Logos, and Psychoanalysis (Hardback) 9780823285754","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eJacques the Sophist\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eLacan, Logos, and Psychoanalysis\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eBarbara Cassin (Author), Michael Syrotinski (Translated by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780823285754\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 22 October 2019\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e192 pages, 8\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.444 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eSophistry, since Plato and Aristotle, has been philosophy's negative \u003ci\u003ealter ego\u003c\/i\u003e, its bad other. 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. 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.\u003cbr\u003e In a highly original rereading of the writings and seminars of Jacques Lacan, together with works of Freud and others, Cassin shows how psychoanalysis, like the sophists, challenges the very foundations of scientific rationality. In taking seriously equivocations, jokes, and unfinishable projects of interpretation, the analyst, like the sophist, allows performance, signifier, and inconsistency to reshape truth.\u003cbr\u003e This witty, brilliant tour de force celebrates how psychoanalysts have become our culture's key dissidents and register, in Lacan's words, \"the presence of the sophist in our time.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePrologue\u003c\/b\u003e: \"How Kind of You to Recognize Me\"   1\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e1. \u003c\/b\u003eDoxography and Psychoanalysis, or Relegating Truth to the Lowly Status It Deserves   5\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e2. \u003c\/b\u003eThe Presence of the Sophist in Our Time   23\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e3. \u003c\/b\u003eLogos-Pharmakon   39\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e4. \u003c\/b\u003eSense and Nonsense, or Lacan's Anti-Aristotelianism   59\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e5. \u003c\/b\u003eThe Jouissance of Language, or Lacan's Ab-Aristotelianism   93\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eEpilogue\u003c\/b\u003e: The Drowning of a Fish   127\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments \u003c\/i\u003e  133\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eTranslator's Note: Performing Untranslatability \u003c\/i\u003e  135\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNotes \u003c\/i\u003e  141\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIndex \u003c\/i\u003e  171\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52580355735832,"sku":"9780823285754","price":74.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/jacques-the-sophist-lacan-logos-and-psychoanalysis-hardback-9780823285754","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}