1st Edition
The Tragedy of Reason Toward a Platonic Conception of Logos
By David Roochnik
Copyright 1990
242 Pages
by
Routledge
242 Pages
by
Routledge
242 Pages
by
Routledge
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The classical conception of reason (or logos ) has been repeatedly attacked in the modern era. Its enemies range from Descartes, who complains that logos is not sufficiently useful or precise, to Derrida who hopes to liberate Western thought from its bondage to "logocentrism."
At least since the time of Nietzsche, Plato has been damned as the chief architect of the classical conception of... Read more
Prologue. Introduction. 1. Logos is Unconditionally Good 2. Is Logos Unconditionally Good? 3. Logos is Conditionally Good. Epilogue. Notes.
Biography
David Roochnik
