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The Tragedy of Reason - Toward a Platonic Conception of Logos (Paperback)
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The Tragedy of Reason - Toward a Platonic Conception of Logos (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Idealism
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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
logos. He is accused of overvaluing reason and thereby devaluing
the other, more human aspects of life. As it was originally
formulated in Nietzsche’s The Birth of Tragedy, Plato has been
taken to be the arch-enemy of tragedy, which for Nietzsche was the
most life-affirming of all the art forms of Greek culture.
Originally published in 1990, The Tragedy of Reason defends Plato
against his accusers. Employing a mode of exposition which exhibits
Plato’s position, Roochnik presents the Platonic conception of
logos in confrontation with texts by Homer, Hesiod, Heraclitus,
Aristotle, Descartes, Porty, and Derrida. In clear language,
unencumbered by technical terminology, Roochnik shows that Platonic
conception of logos is keenly aware of the strength of its
opponents. The result is a presentation of Plato as a "tragic
philosopher" whose conception of logos is characterized by an
affirmation of its own limits as well as its goodness.
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