Just as Plato wrote the Gorgias and Protagoras for the major sophists, we should write the Nietzsche and the Wittgenstein. And, for the minor sophists, the Vattimo and the Rorty. Neither more nor less polemical, neither more nor less respectful. #AlainBadiou

- October 27, 2025

Just as Plato wrote the Gorgias and Protagoras for the major sophists, we should write the Nietzsche and the Wittgenstein. And, for the minor sophists, the Vattimo and the Rorty. Neither more nor less polemical, neither more nor less respectful. #AlainBadiou
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Just as Plato wrote the Gorgias and Protagoras for the major sophists, we should write the Nietzsche and the Wittgenstein. And, for the minor sophists, the Vattimo and the Rorty. Neither more nor less polemical, neither more nor less respectful. #AlainBadiou

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