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Jacques the Sophist: Lacan, Logos, and Psychoanalysis

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by Barbara Cassin
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Availability:In StockContributor:Barbara Cassin, Michael Syrotinski (Translator)Publish date:2019-10-22Pages:192
Language:EnglishPublisher:Fordham University PressISBN-13:9780823285747ISBN-10:082328574XUPC:9780823285747Book Category:Literary Criticism, Psychology, PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Semiotics & Theory, MovementsBook Topic:Psychoanalysis, Post-StructuralismSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.42 inchesWeight:0.6107Product ID:SCSJ590YNW
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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Fordham University PressISBN-13:9780823285747ISBN-10:082328574XUPC:9780823285747Book Category:Literary Criticism, Psychology, PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Semiotics & Theory, MovementsBook Topic:Psychoanalysis, Post-StructuralismSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.42 inchesWeight:0.6107Product ID:SCSJ590YNW
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.


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Barbara Cassin, Michael Syrotinski (Translator)

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