The gift of logos : essays in continental philosophy /

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Imprint:Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, 2010.
Description:1 online resource ([vii], 205 pages)
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11220194
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Other authors / contributors:Jones, David Edward.
Wirth, Jason M., 1963-
Schwartz, Michael.
ISBN:9781443817585
1443817589
9781443818254
1443818259
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary: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 ...
Other form:Print version: Gift of logos. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, 2010
Standard no.:9786612588136