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Lyotard and Greek Thought Lyotard and Greek Thought Sophistry Keith Crome Lecturer in Philosophy Manchester Metropolitan University © Keith Crome 2004 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2004 978-1-4039-1238-1 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London W1T 4LP. Any person who does any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The author has asserted his right to be identified as the author of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published 2004 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS and 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010 Companies and representatives throughout the world PALGRAVE MACMILLAN is the global academic imprint of the Palgrave Macmillan division of St. Martin’s Press, LLC and of Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. Macmillan® is a registered trademark in the United States, United Kingdom and other countries. Palgrave is a registered trademark in the European Union and other countries. ISBN 978-1-349-51103-7 ISBN 978-0-230-00602-7 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9780230006027 This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Crome, Keith, 1965– Lyotard and Greek thought:sophistry/Keith Crome. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Lyotard, Jean François. 2. Sophists (Greek philosophy) I. Title. B2430.L964C76 2004 183′.1—dc22 2004042735 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 13 12 11 10 09 08 07 06 05 04 To Emma, Tilly and Rose 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
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