Being and Logos: Reading the Platonic Dialogues: I, 2 (The Collected Writings of John Sallis) - Softcover

Sallis, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0253044324 ISBN 13: 9780253044327

Publisher: Indiana University Press, 2019

Synopsis

[Being and Logos is] a philosophical adventure of rare inspiration. . . . Its power to illuminate the text . . . , its ecumenicity of inspiration, its methodological rigor, its originality, and its philosophical profundity―all together make it one of the few philosophical interpretations that the philosopher will want to re-read along with the dialogues themselves. A superadded gift is the author’s prose, which is a model of lucidity and grace."
―International Philosophical Quarterly

John Sallis's luminous reading of six major Platonic dialogues--Apology, Meno, Phaedrus, Cratylus, Republic, and Sophist--weavers discussion of the dramatic and mythical aspects together with the basic philosophical issues. Being and Logos fundamentally reorients our reading and understanding of the platonic dialgues.

This new edition of this classic of philosophical interpretation augments the Collected Writings of John Sallis, published by Indiana University Press.

About this title

From the Author:

John Sallis is Frederick J. Adelmann Professor of Philosophy at Boston College. He is author of more than 20 books, including The Figure of Nature and The Return of Nature.

About this edition

• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 0253044324
• ISBN 13: 9780253044327
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 564