{"product_id":"jacques-the-sophist-lacan-logos-and-psychoanalysis-9780823285747","title":"Jacques the Sophist: Lacan, Logos, and Psychoanalysis","description":"\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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis 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.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Barbara Cassin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fordham University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/22\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.61lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.42d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780823285747\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBarbara Cassin (Author) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eBarbara Cassin\u003c\/b\u003e is Director of Research at the CNRS in Paris and a member of the Académie Française. Her widely discussed \u003ci\u003eDictionary of Untranslatables\u003c\/i\u003e has been translated into seven languages, and her \u003ci\u003eNostalgia: When Are we Ever at Home?\u003c\/i\u003e won the 2015 French Voices Grand Prize. Her most recent books to appear in English are \u003ci\u003eGoogle Me: One-Click Democracy\u003c\/i\u003e and, with Alain Badiou, \u003ci\u003eThere's No Such Thing as a Sexual Relationship\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael Syrotinski (Translator) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eM\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eichael Syrotinski\u003c\/b\u003e is Marshal Professor of French at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eDeconstruction and the Postcolonial\u003c\/i\u003e and cotranslator of Cassin's \u003ci\u003eDictionary of Untranslatables\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":41142774300787,"sku":"9.78082E+12","price":59.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_f7867c16-9475-4999-9f7e-6500fc614669.jpg?v=1701878745","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/jacques-the-sophist-lacan-logos-and-psychoanalysis-9780823285747","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}