Mythos and Logos

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.

"This is a valuable book, jam-packed with learning and insight, cosmopolitan in scope, timely yet classically anchored. An achievement of intellectual beauty. This is how I like to see philosophy conducted." – Robert Ginsberg, Director, International Center for the Arts, Humanities, and Value Inquiry

• Editorial ForewordEditorial Introduction: Loving Wisdom by Albert Anderson, Steven V. Hicks, and Lech WitkowskiSection 1: Mythos, Logos, and Atopia: Philosophy as Disruptive WisdomONE Steven V. HICKS and Alan ROSENBERG: Philosophy as Atopos: Disruptive Wisdom as a Way of LifeTWO Charles E. SCOTT: Helen, Heidegger, and the Wisdom of NemesisTHREE 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 PerspectivesFIVE Albert A. ANDERSON: Mythos, Logos, and Telos: How to Regain the Love of WisdomSIX Joel BECK: Bearing Insight: Anxious WisdomSEVEN Kyoo E. LEE: Poetics of Philosophical Somnambulism: A Case of Descartes the Olympian DreamerEIGHT Bret W. DAVIS: A Socrates Who Practices Music: The Dynamic Intertwining of Mythos and Logos: Art and Science in Nietzsche's The Birth of TragedyNINE Victor J. KREBS: Descending into Primaeval Chaos: Philosophy, the Body, and the Pygmalionic ImpulseSection 3: Ancient Wisdom and Its Modern ShapesTEN William Andrew MYERS: Heraclitus' Logos as a Paradigm of the Human UniversalELEVEN Władyslaw Stróżewski: Logos and MythosTWELVE Paul C. SANTILLI and Kristine S. SANTILLI: On the Strange Relation between Heroic Socrates and Wise AchillesSection 4: Social Cultural, and Religious Visions of WisdomTHIRTEEN Franklin PERKINS: Wisdom in Mengzi: Between Self and NatureFOURTEEN Daniel E. SHANNON: Schelling's Philosophy of Mythology: The Value of Myth to PhilosophyFIFTEEN Keping WANG: Zhuangzi’s Way of Thinking through Fables About the ContributorsIndex