Mythos and logos : how to regain the love of wisdom / edited by Albert A. Anderson, Steven V. Hicks, and Lech Witkowski.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Anderson, Albert A.

Hicks, Steven V., 1956-

Witkowski, Lech.

Series:

Value inquiry book series ; v. 155.

Value inquiry book series. Universal justice

Value inquiry book series, 0929-8436 ; v. 155. Universal justice

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy.

Wisdom.

Physical Description:

xvii, 268 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; New York, N.Y. : Rodopi, 2004.

Contents:

Editorial Introduction: Loving Wisdom / Albert Anderson, Steven V. Hicks, Lech Witkowski xiii

Section 1 Mythos, Logos, and Atopia: Philosophy as Disruptive Wisdom

1 Philosophy as Atopos: Disruptive Wisdom as a Way of Life / Steven V. Hicks, Alan Rosenberg 1

2 Helen, Heidegger, and the Wisdom of Nemesis / Charles E. Scott 9

3 Parrhesia: Ancient Philosophy in Opposition / David Konstan 19

4 The Figural Dimension of Nietzsche's Thought / Steven V. Hicks, Alan Rosenberg 35

2. Why Figures? 37

3. The Language of Figures 44

4. The Figure of Disruption: The Philosopher of the Future 50

Section 2 Aesthetic and Psychological Perspectives

5 Mythos, Logos, and Telos: How to Regain the Love of Wisdom / Albert A. Anderson 61

6 Bearing Insight: Anxious Wisdom / Joel Beck 75

2. Wisdom 76

3. Cephalus' Choice 76

4. Anxious Knowledge: The Allegory of the Cave 84

7 Poetics of Philosophical Somnambulism: A Case of Descartes the Olympian Dreamer / Kyoo E. Lee 97

1. The Infant Dawn Cradled in the Folds of Clouds: Descartes, the Philosophical Somnambulist 97

2. The Threefold Dream of Descartes: Private, Theoretical, and Theological 99

3. I Think, Therefore I May Be Dreaming: This Is How I Am 102

4. I Dream, Therefore I Am Touched: Some Cartesian Thoughts on the Necessity of Dreaming 106

8 A Socrates Who Practices Music: The Dynamic Intertwining of Mythos and Logos, Art and Science in Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy / Bret W. Davis 115

1. Introduction: Two Mythical Dualities 115

2. Greek Tragedy: Mediating a Tremendous Opposition 119

3. The Tragic Birth of Science: Socratism 122

4. The Hierarchy of Reason: From Plato to Kant 123

5. Closing the Circle: Hegel's Insistence 126

6. An Impossible Book: An Artistic Socrates 129

7. Beyond the Last Metaphysician: The First Tragic Philosopher 132

9 "Descending into Primaeval Chaos": Philosophy, the Body, and the Pygmalionic Impulse / Victor J. Krebs 141

2. The Philosophical Prejudice against the Body 144

3. Memory and Wisdom 146

4. Narcissus Narcosis 148

5. The Pornographic Imagination 151

6. The Loss of Memory 154

7. Conclusion: The Wisdom of Sophia 158

Section 3 Ancient Wisdom and Its Modern Shapes

10 Heraclitus' Logos as a Paradigm of the Human Universal / William Andrew Myers 163

2. The Fragments as an Open Text 164

3. The Logos Fragments 165

4. Reading a Metaphor 166

5. The Interpretation of Logos 168

6. The Universal in Human Experience 171

11 Logos and Mythos / Wladyslaw Strozewski 175

12 On the Strange Relation between Heroic Socrates and Wise Achilles / Paul C. Santilli, Kristine S. Santilli 189

1. Achilles in the Apology and Lesser Hippias 190

2. Affiliations in the Iliad 193

3. Socrates Mourned and Unmourned 195

4. Priam and Achilles 198

Section 4 Social, Cultural, and Religious Visions of Wisdom

13 Wisdom in Mengzi: Between Self and Nature / Franklin Perkins 205

1. Mythos and Logos 205

2. Feelings and Our Nature 208

3. Feeling and Our Environment 210

4. Wisdom as the Middle Ground 212

5. Why Mengzi Might Be Right 215

14 Schelling's Philosophy of Mythology: The Value of Myth to Philosophy / Daniel E. Shannon 221

1. The Critical-Historical Method 221

2. Myth Contains Literal Truth 222

3. The Origin of Peoples and the Sign of the Common Stem 224

4. Myth Shows a Common Unitary Thought 226

5. Finding the Original Source: God and Self 228

6. Conclusion: The Value of Myth to Philosophy 232

15 Zhuangzi's Way of Thinking through Fables / Keping Wang 237

1. The Peng and Happy Excursion to the Infinite 237

2. The Butterfly and Self-Emancipation 248.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9042010207

OCLC:

55682747