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Book SynopsisThis 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.
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Table of ContentsEditorial 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: Parrhēsia: 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 Władyslaw Stróżewski: 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
