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The Exemplary Rhetor: On Anti-Philosophy and Sophistics in Alain Badiou
Södertörn University, School of Culture and Education, Rhetoric. Université libre de Bruxelles, Groupe de recherche en Rhétorique et en Argumentation Linguistique, Belgium.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-0847-2024
2023 (English)In: Distinctio, ISSN 2939-0826, no 2, p. 85-110Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

This article investigates the ambiguous status of rhetoric, situated between proper philosophy and mere sophistry, through Alan Badiou’s three exemplary f igures of thought: the philosopher, the anti-philosopher, and the sophist. With the recent return of the sophist in politics in the form of populist politicians, contemporary rhetorical studies have expressed a need for the discipline to reconsider its alliance with relativist sophistics. However, by studying Badiou’s three exemplary f igures, and relating them to his understanding of the three forms of negation, the article explores a possible rift between sophistical rhetoric and anti-philosophical populism that complicates prevalent understandings of the relationship between rhetoric, phi-losophy, and sophistics. Finally, the article brings up some issues concerning how to f it exemplarity in general, and the three exemplary f igures in particular, into the framework of Badiou’s entire philosophy and discusses how to potentially counter-act these limitations.

Abstract [de]

Dieser Artikel untersucht den zweideutigen Status der Rhetorik, der zwischen echter Philosophie und bloßer Sophisterei angesiedelt ist, anhand von Alan Badious drei exemplarischen Denkfiguren: dem Philosophen, dem Anti-Philosophen und dem Sophisten. Mit der jüngsten Rückkehr des Sophisten in die Politik in Form popu-listischer Politiker hat die zeitgenössische Rhetorikforschung die Notwendigkeit zum Ausdruck gebracht, dass die Disziplin ihr Bündnis mit der relativistischen So-phistik überdenkt. Indem Badious drei exemplarische Figuren untersucht und sie mit seinem Verständnis der drei Formen der Negation in Beziehung gesetzt werden, untersucht der Artikel eine mögliche Kluft zwischen sophistischer Rhetorik und an-tiphilosophischem Populismus, die das vorherrschende Verständnis der Beziehung zwischen Rhetorik, Philosophie und Sophistik verkompliziert. Schließlich wirft der Artikel einige Fragen dazu auf, wie die Exemplarität im Allgemeinen und die drei exemplarischen Figuren im Besonderen in den Rahmen von Badious gesamter Philo-sophie eingeordnet werden können, und erörtert, wie man diesen Einschränkungen möglicherweise entgegenwirken kann.

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Zadar: Hegel Society Croatia , 2023. no 2, p. 85-110
Keywords [en]
Rhetoric, Alain Badiou, Sophistics, Anti-Philosophy, Exemplarity
Keywords [de]
Rhetorik, Alain Badiou, Sophistik, Anti-Philosophie, Exemplarität
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Other research area; Critical and Cultural Theory
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URN: urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-52771DOI: 10.56550/d.2.2.4Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85194256700OAI: oai:DiVA.org:sh-52771DiVA, id: diva2:1823242
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The Return of the Sophists? – Democracy, Post-Truth, and Rhetoric in the Populist Moment, Swedish Research Council
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Swedish Research Council, 2021-00299Available from: 2024-01-01 Created: 2024-01-01 Last updated: 2025-10-07Bibliographically approved

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