Abstract

The third edition of Being and Logos—consisting in a revised text of the second edition and a "recomposed preface"—twenty-one years after the book's first appearance, is ample testimony to the continuing success of John Sallis's work. Originally part of the Duquesne Philosophical Series, a series dedicated mainly to phenomenology and other related disciplines, Sallis adopts a phenomenological approach and language at the outset, which sometimes leads to genuinely gnomic utterances, but which is inspired at root by the simple and admirable wish to read six Platonic dialogues with as few unnecessary assumptions and as little theatrical baggage as possible, and to read them as individual wholes rather than as fragmentary lode-bearers of some pre-established or Procrustean "philosophy of Plato".