Lyotard and Greek Thought: Sophistry

195 Pages·2004·1.479 MB·English

by  Keith Crome (auth.)

Lyotard and Greek Thought

Lyotard and Greek
Thought
Sophistry
Keith Crome
Lecturer in Philosophy
Manchester Metropolitan University
© Keith Crome 2004
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Contents
Abbreviations viii
Acknowledgements x
Introduction 1
Part I The Place of Sophistry in Philosophy 11
1 The Sophists 13
2 Hegel and the Sophists 42
3 Heidegger and Sophistry 62
Part II Lyotard and the Sophistication of Philosophy 85
4 Lyotard and Sophistry 87
5 Lyotard and Kant: A Sophistical Critique 107
6 Lyotard and the Sophistication of Ontology 122
7 A Sophistical Differend 146
Conclusion 159
Notes 163
Select Bibliography 176
Index 184
vii
Abbreviations
Full details of all texts can be found in the bibliography.
G. W. F. Hegel
EL Hegel’s Logic:Being Part One of the Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical
Sciences
HP I Lectures on the History of Philosophy,Vol. 1,Greek Philosophy to
Plato
HP II Lectures on the History of Philosophy,Vol. 2,Plato and the Platonists
HP III Lectures on the History of Philosophy,Vol. 3,Medieval and Modern
Philosophy
M. Heidegger
AWP ‘The Age of the World Picture’
BPP Basic Problems of Phenomenology
BT Being and Time
HG ‘Hegel and the Greeks’
MFL The Metaphysical Foundations of Logic
N IV Nietzsche,Vol. IV,Nihilism
PS Plato’s Sophist
J.-F. Lyotard
D The Differend
DF Discours,figure
DMF Dérive à partir de Marx et Freud
DP Des dispositifs pulsionnels
JG Just Gaming
LR The Lyotard Reader
NS Cinq cours de 1975 sur Nietzsche et les Sophistes
OSW ‘On the Strength of the Weak’
P Peregrinations:Law,Form,Event
PMC The Postmodern Condition
SFF ‘Sur la force des faibles’
TPM Towards the Post-Modern
viii
Abbreviations ix
I. Kant
CJ Critique of Judgement
CPR Critique of Pure Reason
Others
DK Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker edited by H. Diels and W. Kranz
EGP Early Greek Philosophy edited by J. Barnes
MXG ‘On Melissus, Xenophanes and Gorgias’ in Aristotle’s Minor
Works
OS The Older Sophists: A Complete Translation by Several Hands
of the Fragments in Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker edited by
Diels-Kranz with a new edition of Antiphon and of Euthydemus
SP Si Parménide: Le traité anonyme De Melisso, Xenophane, Gorgia
by Barbara Cassin