Should We be Teaching Eloquence? Or; On the Foundations for a Logology

Abstract

This text aims at investigating the possible effects that Barbara Cassin’s rereading of the battle between the philosophers and the sophist might have on the contemporary understanding of the connection between Rhetoric and the political. In her critique of Plato and Aristotle, she construes the conflict between philosophy and sophistry as a dispute about being rather than, as is traditionally argued, knowledge (ontology/logology rather than epistemology/doxology). Finally,a possible foundation for a logological understanding of the political is sketched with the help of concepts from Lacanian psychoanalysis.

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APA

Stagnell, A. (2017). Ska vi lära folk att tala? Eller: om logologins förutsättningar. Rhetorica Scandinavica, 74, 55–71. https://doi.org/10.52610/rhs.v20i74.59

@article{stagnell2017,
  author  = {Stagnell, Alexander},
  title   = {Ska vi lära folk att tala? Eller: om logologins förutsättningar},
  journal = {Rhetorica Scandinavica},
  number  = {74},
  pages   = {55--71},
  year    = {2017},
  doi     = {10.52610/rhs.v20i74.59}
}