<i>Mythos</i> and <i>Logos</i>

How to Regain the Love of Wisdom
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-90-420-1020-8
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 155, 268 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 220 mm, Gewicht: 517 g

Reihe: Value Inquiry Book Series / Universal Justice

This book contains fifteen essays all seeking to regain the original meaning of philosophy as the love of wisdom. Mythos and Logos are two essential aspects of a quest that began with the ancient Greeks. As concepts fundamental to human experience, Mythos and Logos continue to guide the search for truth in the twenty-first century.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Anderson, Albert A.

Hicks, Steven V.

Witkowski, Lech

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Antike Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Editorial Foreword
Editorial Introduction: Loving Wisdom by Albert Anderson, Steven V. Hicks, and Lech Witkowski
Section 1: Mythos, Logos, and Atopia: Philosophy as Disruptive Wisdom
ONE Steven V. HICKS and Alan ROSENBERG: Philosophy as Atopos: Disruptive Wisdom as a Way of Life
TWO Charles E. SCOTT: Helen, Heidegger, and the Wisdom of Nemesis
THREE David KONSTAN: Parrhesia: Ancient Philosophy in Opposition
FOUR Steven V. HICKS and Alan ROSENBERG: The Figural Dimension of Nietzsche's Thought
Section 2: Aesthetic and Psychological Perspectives
FIVE Albert A. ANDERSON: Mythos, Logos, and Telos: How to Regain the Love of Wisdom
SIX Joel BECK: Bearing Insight: Anxious Wisdom
SEVEN Kyoo E. LEE: Poetics of Philosophical Somnambulism: A Case of Descartes the Olympian Dreamer
EIGHT Bret W. DAVIS: A Socrates Who Practices Music: The Dynamic Intertwining of Mythos and Logos: Art and Science in Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy
NINE Victor J. KREBS: Descending into Primaeval Chaos: Philosophy, the Body, and the Pygmalionic Impulse
Section 3: Ancient Wisdom and Its Modern Shapes
TEN William Andrew MYERS: Heraclitus' Logos as a Paradigm of the Human Universal
ELEVEN Wladyslaw Strózewski: Logos and Mythos
TWELVE Paul C. SANTILLI and Kristine S. SANTILLI: On the Strange Relation between Heroic Socrates and Wise Achilles
Section 4: Social Cultural, and Religious Visions of Wisdom
THIRTEEN Franklin PERKINS: Wisdom in Mengzi: Between Self and Nature
FOURTEEN Daniel E. SHANNON: Schelling's Philosophy of Mythology: The Value of Myth to Philosophy
FIFTEEN Keping WANG: Zhuangzi’s Way of Thinking through Fables
About the Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

ALBERT A. ANDERSON is professor of philosophy and Murata Professor of Ethics at Babson College. Scholarly work centers on ethics, aesthetics, epistemology, and Greek Philosophy. Editions Rodopi published his book, Universal Justice: A Dialectical Approach, as part of its Value Inquiry Book Series in 1997. Current projects include revising translations of Plato’s dialogues from Greek and adapting them for dramatic performance, including unabridged paperback and audio versions of Plato’s Republic, Gorgias, Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Ion, and Meno. Other scholarship includes a translation from French of Mikel Dufrenne’s The Phenomenology of Aesthetic Experience and approximately 80 articles and papers on a variety of philosophical topics. He is president of Agora Publications, which specializes in translating and adapting classical philosophical texts into contemporary American English. From 1996 to 2001, he served as president and was a founding member of the International Society for Universal Dialogue, established in Warsaw, Poland, in 1989.

STEVEN V. HICKS is professor and chair of philosophy at Queens College of the City University of New York. He is the author of International Law and the Possibility of a Just World Order and has written numerous articles on G. W. F. Hegel and Friedrich Nietzsche. He is editor of the special book series Universal Justice of the Value Inquiry Book Series and is currently a member of the board of editorial consultants for the History of Philosophy Quarterly.

LECH WITKOWSKI is former president of the International Society for Universal Dialogue, and ordinary professor holding the chair of theory of education and culture in the department of public affairs, faculty of management and communication, Jagiellonian University in Cracow. He is former dean of the faculty of humanities, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, and he writes books on epistemology, semiotics, psychoanalysis, and cultural and educational studies.