Ten. How to Really Do Things with Words: Per for mance Before the Performative

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: Toward a New Topology of Philosophy 1
5. Part I. Unusual Presocratics
6. one. Who’s Afraid of the Sophists?: Against Ethical Correctness 25
7. Two. Speak If You Are a Man, or the Transcendental Exclusion 44
8. Three. Seeing Helen in Every Woman: Woman and Word 57
9. Part II. Sophistics, Rhetorics, Politics
10. Four. Rhetorical Turns in Ancient Greece 75
11. Five. Topos/Kairos: Two Modes Of Invention 87
12. Six. Time of Deliberation and Space of Power: Athens and Rome, the First Conflict 102
13. Part III. Sophistical Trends in Political Philosophy
14. Seven. From Organism to Picnic: Which Consensus for Which City? 111
15. Eight. Aristotle with and Against Kant on the Idea of Human Nature 136
16. Part IV. Performance and Performative
17. Ten. How to Really Do Things with Words: Per for mance Before the Performative 191
18. Eleven. The Performative Without Condition: A University sans appel 221
19. Twelve. Genres and Genders. Woman/Philosopher: Identity as Strategy 234
20. Thirteen. Philosophizing in Tongues 246
21. Part V. “Enough of the Truth For . . .”
22. Fourteen. “Enough of the Truth For. . .”: On the Truth and Reconciliation Commission 261
23. Fifteen. Politics of Memory: On the Treatment of Hate 274
24. Sixteen. Google and Cultural Democracy 291
25. Seventeen. The Relativity of Translation and Relativism 297
26. Notes 317
27. Index 365