Gregory Kirk is Associate Teaching Professor of Philosophy at Northern Arizona University, USA.Joseph Arel teaches in the Philosophy Department at the University of Southern Maine, USA.

• Notes on ContributorsAcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroductionPart I. The Logos of Logos1. Language, Logic and Metaphysics: The Being with Logos and the Logos of BeingJohn Russon and Ömer Aygün Part II. The Logos of Phusis2. “For there are gods here too”: EmbodiedEssence, Two-Footedness, and the Animal with LogosEli Diamond3. The Significance of Self-Nourishment: Aristotle’s De Anima II.4Greg Recco4. Flesh as LogosRebecca Steiner Goldner5. Perception, Thought, and Error in Aristotle’s De AnimaWhitney Howell6. “Actuality in the First Sense” and the Question of Human Nature in AristotleJohn RussonPart III. The Logos of Ethos7. Wishful Thinking in AristotleÖmer Aygün8. The Dissociative Power of Logos in Taking Account of OneselfGregory Kirk9. Aristotle on the Rationality of VirtueEve Rabinoff10. Learning how to be at Leisure through Musical EducationJacob SingerPart IV. The Logos of the Polis11. The Vicissitudes of Logos: On Nature, Character and Time-of-LifeRobert Metcalf12. Practical Logos in Aristotle’s Ethics, Rhetoric and PoliticsFred Guerin13. The Movement of Political AnimalsJoseph Arel14. Aristotle: The Politics of Life and the Life of PoliticsWalter Brogan15. Logos and the Polis in the PoeticsPatricia FaganBibliographyIndex

This volume offers a profoundly illuminating portrait of a central element in Aristotle's philosophy that is rarely approached in its full complexity and breadth—namely, the notion of logos. These essays impressively chart the winding path of this idea through the Aristotelian corpus, focusing on its most vital applications in his studies of ethics, politics, and even the natural world.