/lit/ - Literature

>>19860951
>Mushrooms Bible
based beyond belief
>>19859615
The book is great so far, I'm still a bit earlier in the book which describes the history of the term "Sophist" and how it has been used and changed throughout history. Schiappa has done a great job of showing the historiography of the Sophists from Plato and Aristotle to Hegal, believing that throughout history many philosophers and scholars have simply conflated the Sophists as simply holding nonsense thoughts, thoughts meant to directly oppose the systematic thinking of the Presocratics, or as being forerunners of modern thought (Protagoras with positivism for example). Schiappa asks the reader to turn these systematic and over-interpretive assertions aside and see the Sophists in their proper context. Pic related really struck me, this'll always be something I keep in the back of my mind.