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The Continental tradition has always placed great emphasis on the logos. The Gift of Logos: Essays in Continental Philosophy celebrates and situates this emphasis in the genre of the gift and its giving. The process of receiving, or giving, of the gift overcomes the existential alienation and separation that is so present in the human condition. To ritualize giving and its gifting is to provide a syntax of solidarity that bespeaks our desire for cohesion and need for identities beyond our own

Introduction: Stanley Rosen as educator / Nalin Ranasinghe -- Works for or about Stanley Rosen -- Transformations of enlightenment : Plato, Rosen and the postmodern / Alasdair MacIntyre -- The "Ordinary Experience" of the platonic dialogues / Drew Hyland -- From hermeneutics to common sense : Stanley Rosen on precomprehension / Laurent Jaffro -- Brief essays for Sanley Rosen / Herbert Mason -- Discourse, a poem / by Geoffrey Hill -- Works on Plato and ancient philosophy -- The grammar of the soul : on Plato's Euthyphro / Michael Davis -- Les dimensions platoniciennes de la dunamis : agir, patir, differencier / Monique Dixsaut -- Platonic liberalism : self-perfection as a foundation of platonic political theory / Charles Griswold -- The non-lover in aristotle's ethics / Ronna Burger -- Democracy in motion : some reflections on herodotean politics / Clifford Orwin -- Aristotle's commonsensical cosmology / David Roochnik -- The politics of the afterlife in Plato's Gorgias / Damjan Krnjevic -- Works on modern philosophy -- Kant's philosophical use of mathematics : negative magnitudes / Eva Brann -- Origins of enchantment : conceptual continuities in the ontology of political wholeness / Waller Newell -- On giving oneself the law / Robert Pippin -- Christianity is platonism for the people / Robert Rethy -- Where my spade turns : on philosophy, nihilism, and the ordinary / Sharon Rider -- Freedom from the good : Heidegger's idealist grounding of politics / Richard Velkley -- The true and the bad infinity / Donald Verene

Der Sammelband hat den mehrdeutigen Begriff "Logos" zum Thema. Darunter ist das Wort, die Rede, die Vernunft, die Lehre u.a. zu verstehen. Für die Gebildeten in der Antike war dies ein Schlüsselwort für das Verständnis der Wirklichkeit. Die Christen fügten dem Terminus einen christologischen Inhalt hinzu. Die Beiträge zeigen Aspekte der Auseinandersetzung im Bereich der Bildung und der Kultur zwischen den Vertretern der klassischen überlieferung und den gebildeten Christen, welche die Entwicklung der abendländischen Kultur prägen wird