Pensare l’agone: Foucault, Cassin e la storia dell’esclusione della sofistica

Both Michel Foucault and Barbara Cassin address Aristotle’s thought the 5th century BCE sources attributed to rhetorician Gorgias in order reconstruct history of strategic exclusion Sophistics from Western philosophical tradition. They retrace scene rhetoric agon that Aristotle engaged with Gorgias. theorists’ arguments illuminate sophist has formulated an original account political theatricality by talking about scenes logos.