Jacques the Sophist

Barbara Cassin (Author) Barbara Cassin is Director of Research at the CNRS in Paris and a member of the Académie Française. Her widely discussed Dictionary of Untranslatables has been translated into seven languages, and her Nostalgia: When Are we Ever at Home? won the 2015 French Voices Grand Prize. Her most recent books to appear in English are Google Me: One-Click Democracy and, with Alain Badiou, There's No Such Thing as a Sexual Relationship.Michael Syrotinski (Translator) Michael Syrotinski is Marshal Professor of French at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. He is the author of Deconstruction and the Postcolonial and cotranslator of Cassin's Dictionary of Untranslatables.

• Prologue: "How Kind of You to Recognize Me" 11. Doxography and Psychoanalysis, or Relegating Truth to the Lowly Status It Deserves 52. The Presence of the Sophist in Our Time 233. Logos-Pharmakon 394. Sense and Nonsense, or Lacan's Anti-Aristotelianism 595. The Jouissance of Language, or Lacan's Ab-Aristotelianism 93Epilogue: The Drowning of a Fish 127Acknowledgments 133Translator's Note: Performing Untranslatability 135Notes 141Index 171

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