Nietzsche considered that Socrates mischaracterized the Sophists and exiled them out of the Logos, making their art the other of philosophy, of what became the Platonic-Aristotelian orthodoxy in the history of western thought. Barbara Cassin's Sophistical Practice undertakes the Nietzschean task of reappraising the Sophists' enterprise and the lessons that their other conception of the Logos has for ... Read moreus, today: about the long suppressed feminine buried under the orthodox history of philosophy, about language and translation, about the meaning of a transitional justice (of the kind illustrated by post-apartheid South Africa) that demands not the absolute Platonic truth-in-itself but the sophistical enough-truth-for restoring communities fractured by hate and strife and giving them the sense of a future. This is a superb work of classical erudition at the service of the reflection on contemporary issues.
-Soulemane Bachir Diagne
Columbia University
To think with Barbara Cassin is a pleasure and a privilege. English readers will be grateful to Fordham University Press for making Cassin's work in classics and philosophy available to them finally. Her unique readings, combining ancient texts and contemporary theory, breathe new life into everything they touch.
-Bonnie Honig
Brown University
. . . the publication of this anthology represents a major event in continental thought: a summa of Cassin's multifaceted philosophical project to date.
Paul Earlie
-Radical Philosophy
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