... 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...

..., 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...

..., 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...

..., 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, “What is?,” which had recently...

.... 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...

... 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 industries according to Adorno...

... 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...

... promise truth. The promise 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...

.... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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 of the inward word as true writing on the soul when he spoke warmly of the man...

... to that finitude. Moreover, Lyotard raises the stakes by claiming that it is the role of a republic not only to protect such speech but to further it. Lyotard speaks of an idyllic republic, of course, but the speculative freedom he allows himself, in the manner of a Socrates, permits him to assert that a republic...

... 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...

... 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...

..., 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...

... 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...

..., typical of the pre-Socratic philosophers, mirrored the same properties that had to be measured in the new metallic medium of commerce. For Sohn-Rethel, however, secular thinking was born as a conscious and critical reaction to the ills that money brought to Greek society. Reducing the genesis...

... Aristotelian logic characterized by its proposi- tional model of judgment (a substantial subject + the copula “to be” + an accidental predicate [e.g., “Socrates is bald A semi- otics freed from these models of structural signifi cation and per- sonal subjectivations can take the form...