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Qui Parle (2014) 23 (1): 239–255.
Published: 01 June 2014
... is to be understood as a thing of that particular kind. The form of this investigation is well known, for it has defi ned philosophy since Socrates. What is essential to this form is that the being and mode- of- being of things are not simply taken for grant- ed; rather, they are questioned or “problematized...
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Qui Parle (2024) 33 (1): 63–78.
Published: 01 June 2024
.... The spectacle of Socrates submitting his own doxa to the irresponsible opinions of the Athenians, and being outvoted by a majority, made Plato despise opinions and yearn for absolute standards. Hannah Arendt, “Philosophy and Politics” Rumor had it that Socrates was impious toward the Olympian deities...
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Qui Parle (2013) 22 (1): 223–234.
Published: 01 June 2013
..., Rancière postulates revolution at the level of structural address. Rancière, however, forgets the scene of transmission in which the fi rst fable, the fable of King Thamus and the mute, orphaned letter, is told. It appears in the context of Socrates’ dialogue with Phaedrus, the young student...
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Qui Parle (2017) 26 (2): 519–532.
Published: 01 December 2017
..., but the text qua text —lies behind, is quite possibly, a veil, remains veiled from one, where it has long since sailed away from one, where it is nothing other than a sail.   And if, at this moment, one is feeling vain, hubristic even, and wants to channel Socrates—leaving aside the potential irony...
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Qui Parle (2017) 26 (1): 19–60.
Published: 01 June 2017
... that Benjamin seems to pose, there is a pause. Because the propositional content of his sentence is a question, the thetic gesture he performs is unsettled, rendered questionable. He begins with the words “it is” (es ist), as though in echo of the question of the philosophical tradition, the Socratic τί ἐστί...
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Qui Parle (2012) 20 (2): 19–33.
Published: 01 December 2012
.... Writing pre- cedes speech, Plato comes before Socrates: these fl owers had al- ready been saying this, as were poems. A deconstructive drive is at work, everywhere: “The one in the other, the one in front of the other, the one after the other, the one behind the other...
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Qui Parle (2017) 26 (1): 79–99.
Published: 01 June 2017
... transindividuation as it can short-circuit them, in the latter case by replacing them with automatisms (the clichés of sophistic thinking in the eyes of Socrates, the destruction of work knowledge [ savoir faire ] by machinism according to Marx, the liquidation of life knowledge [ savoir vivre ] by the culture...
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Qui Parle (2011) 20 (1): 49–55.
Published: 01 June 2011
... students are initiated into university-level inquiry, is to spurn the enduring Socratic notion of learning as a “turning of the soul.” It is also to privilege those courses that conform best to large-scale cyber teaching, those with the most information-based content. It would thus...
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Qui Parle (2017) 26 (2): 271–280.
Published: 01 December 2017
... of truth, however unspoken, makes falsehood possible, as Plato’s Socrates so long ago suggested. 4 Yet it is also only on the basis of that promise that falsehoods can be called out. This is, of course, not to say that words, speech, or language is truth; rather, particular utterances may be true...
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Qui Parle (2009) 18 (1): 111–180.
Published: 01 June 2009
.... As a result his entire death turns on the scandal of the law. The innocent dies for a law . . . and in his death fulfi lls the law. The interpretation of the death of Socrates is the opposite. The judges distort the law, it is not the law that condemns him, but instead the bad judges who...
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Qui Parle (2013) 21 (2): 1–25.
Published: 01 December 2013
... death. Heidegger tries to spell out the nature of a counter- Cartesian I by opposing the ancient Greek way of taking man to be the mea- sure of all things to the Cartesian way. He cites Socrates quoting and commenting on a passage in Protagoras: Socrates: [Protagoras...
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Qui Parle (2009) 18 (1): 181–210.
Published: 01 June 2009
... in the discussion. This is what Socrates teaches us (and Aristotle codifi es for us). Without these exigencies, I can certainly speak to someone (address myself to him), but not speak with someone, meaning produce a logos in common, which I can be reassured that we in effect understand equally (homologia...
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Qui Parle (2010) 19 (1): 9–35.
Published: 01 June 2010
... Heraclitus for saying that it is impossible to step twice in into the same river; for he thought one could not do it even once” (1010a). Heraclitus’s antique epithet, “the weeping philosopher,” is built upon the Pla- tonic dialogue in which Socrates, conversing with a still-speaking Cratylus...
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Qui Parle (2004) 14 (2): 57–104.
Published: 01 December 2004
... touchstone of my very existence. Here Descartes' cogito could be rendered instead as "I am aware of my inner voice, therefore I am." Together with its strong sensa- tion of self-immediacy comes the impression, at least, of truth telling. Socrates emphasised the greater veracity...
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Qui Parle (2017) 26 (1): 61–77.
Published: 01 June 2017
..., but the speculative freedom he allows himself, in the manner of a Socrates, permits him to assert that a republic must instruct its citizens in the meaning and use of speech that is respectful of the very thing that makes the human other other . Those familiar with Rancière’s notion of dissensus can imagine his...
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Qui Parle (2000) 12 (1): 17–54.
Published: 01 June 2000
... himself, of course, priority should probably still be given to the positive aspect connected with the concept of methexis. It is easy to understand this when one keeps in mind the original hostility of the Socratic-Platonic school to the Sophists. It is the Soph- ists...
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Qui Parle (2008) 17 (1): 41–62.
Published: 01 June 2008
... to a few good shadows to get what the sun re- fuses, Plato had detached himself (s’était dépris) from the Socratic myth that one can leave the cave. He appeals to the images traced upon water by a geometry of solar eclipses. It is through this that the deuteron ploun is determined...
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Qui Parle (2009) 17 (2): 149–169.
Published: 01 December 2009
..., vol. 20, ed. James Strachey (London: Hogarth Press, 1953–74). Here- after cited as SE. 5. Jacques Derrida, The Post Card: From Socrates to Freud and Beyond, trans. A. Bass (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987), 301. Hereafter cited as PC. 6. Donald Winnicott...
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Qui Parle (2000) 12 (1): 55–76.
Published: 01 June 2000
... at least their potentialities.' The goal here is to face squarely, and hopefully to solve, what Charles Taylor has called "the greatest in- tellectual problem of human culture" that in some ways goes back to the nomos and physis debate among pre-Socratics, namely, "dis...
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Qui Parle (2021) 30 (1): 159–184.
Published: 01 June 2021
... coins entered and boosted commerce, the Greek colonies witnessed the first generation of the canonical Western philosophers, including Thales, Anaximander, and Anaximenes. Sohn-Rethel argued that the notions of identity, substance, divisibility, and infinity, typical of the pre-Socratic philosophers...