Speech of Ruse and Tricks of Speech

Abstract

It is with ruse as with history: history itself, associated with all histories, founding them, distorting them, marking traditions as well as creating empires; it has never ceased to be the driving force of politics and the 'intelligence' of the world. Since the Greeks at least as far as we are concerned, and when they classified human games and strategies under the term 'metis', M. Detienne and J.-P. Vernant, have tried, at the cost of considerable work(*), to approach the meanings and phenomena mentioned there. Strange and complex reality indeed.
“The reality that we strive to understand,” they write, “is projected onto a plurality of planes, as distinct from each other as can be a theogony or a myth of sovereignty, the metamorphoses of a divinity. - ¢ aquatic, the knowledge of Athena and Hephaestus, Hermes and Aphrodite, Zeus and Prometheus, a trap for hunting, a fishing net, the art of the basket maker, the weaver, the carpenter , the mastery of the navigator, the flair of the politician, the experienced eye of the doctor, the trickery of a devious character like Ulysses, the turn of the fox and the polymorphy of the octopus, the game of riddles and riddles, “the American illusionism of the sophists”.