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  • Being and Logos

    Reading the Platonic Dialogues

    by John Sallis ...
    An exercise in the careful reading of the dialogues in their originary character." 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 ... Read more

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  • Force of Imagination

    The Sense of the Elemental

    by John Sallis ...
    Series series Studies in Continental Thought
    Force of ImaginationThe Sense of the ElementalJohn SallisA bold and original investigation into how imagination shapes thought and feeling."This is a bold new direction for the author, one that he takes in an arresting and convincing manner. . . . a powerful, original approach to what others call 'ecology' but what Sallis shows to be a question of the status of the earth in philosophical thinking ... Read more

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  • The Logos of the Sensible World

    Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenological Philosophy

    by John Sallis ...
    A presentation of the two-semester lecture course on Merleau-Ponty given at Duquesne University from 1970 to 1971 by the esteemed American philosopher.Devoted primarily to a close reading of the French philosopher's magnum opus, Phenomenology of Perception, this course begins with a detailed analysis of The Structure of Behavior. The central topics considered in the lectures include the functions ... Read more

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  • Songs of Nature

    On Paintings by Cao Jun

    by John Sallis ...
    The work of the contemporary Chinese painter prompts reflections on nature, art, and music from one of America's leading philosophers.This text by John Sallis carries out a series of ruminations by taking up Cao Jun's art and thought, with a focus on questions of the elemental. Sallis's reflections are not a matter of simply relating art works to philosophical thought, as theoretical insights and ... Read more

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  • Elemental Discourses

    by John Sallis ...
    "A remarkable collection of essays that serve as a rewarding introduction to the more mature thought of Sallis . . . a feast of discourse." — Notre Dame Philosophical ReviewsJohn Sallis's thought is oriented to two overarching tasks: to bring to light the elemental in nature and to show how the imagination operates at the very center of human experience. He undertakes these tasks by analyzing a ... Read more

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  • Light Traces

    by John Sallis ...
    Series series Studies in Continental Thought
    A collection of philosophical essays on place and nature, featuring beautiful paintings and drawings.What is the effect of light as it measures the seasons? How does light leave different traces on the terrain—on a Pacific Island, in the Aegean Sea, high in the Alps, or in the forest? John Sallis considers the expansiveness of nature and the range of human vision in essays about the effect of ... Read more

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  • The Figure of Nature

    On Greek Origins

    by John Sallis ...
    Series series Studies in Continental Thought
    One of America's preeminent philosophers "has produced a book with fascinating new insights into the ancient conception of nature" ( Choice).Broaching an understanding of nature in Platonic thought, John Sallis goes beyond modern conceptions and provides a strategy to have recourse to the profound sense of nature operative in ancient Greek philosophy. In a rigorous and textually based account, ... Read more

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  • Kant and the Spirit of Critique

    by John Sallis ...
    Series series The Collected Writings of John Sallis
    This volume of the Collected Writings of John Sallis presents his lecture courses on Kant. Each course was devoted respectively to one of Kant's three Critiques, and so the book as a whole treats the entirety of the Kantian critical project. Sallis displays here, as he does in all his lecture courses, an uncanny ability to open up dense philosophical texts. The matters Kant deals with—in ... Read more

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  • Ethicality and Imagination

    On Luminous Abodes

    by John Sallis ...
    Series series The Collected Writings of John Sallis
    Ethicality and Imagination is the astounding conclusion to John Sallis's landmark trilogy launched with Force of Imagination and Logic of Imagination. In this new work, Sallis embarks on an unforgettable voyage spanning the cosmos and delving deep into what makes us human. If the first two works consider the question of being and thinking, respectively, the third and culminating volume takes up ... Read more

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  • Chorology

    On Beginning in Plato's Timaeus

    by John Sallis ...
    "The major American philosopher . . . makes us want to re-read the Platonic text with fascination. And that is but its grandest gift." —Daniel Guerriere, professor emeritus of philosophy at California State University, Long BeachIn Chorology, John Sallis takes up one of the most enigmatic discourses in the history of philosophy. Plato's discourse on the chora—the chorology—forms the pivotal moment ... Read more

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  • The Return of Nature

    Coming As If from Nowhere

    by John Sallis ...
    Series series Studies in Continental Thought
    A reflection on the urgent need for a new philosophical understanding of, and relationship with, nature.John Sallis dismantles the traditional conception of nature in this book of imagination and the cosmos. In the thought of Emerson, Hegel, and Schelling, Sallis discerns the seeds of an understanding of nature that goes against the modern technological assault on natural things and opens a space ... Read more

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  • On Beauty and Measure

    Plato's Symposium and Statesman

    by John Sallis ...
    Series series The Collected Writings of John Sallis
    On Beauty and Measure features renowned philosopher John Sallis' commentaries on Plato's dialogues the Symposium and the Statesman. Drawn from two lecture courses delivered by Sallis, they represent his longest and most sustained engagement to date with either work.Brilliantly original, Sallis's close readings of Plato's dialogues are grounded in the original passages and also illuminate the ... Read more

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