Persuasion, Reflection, Judgment

Rodolphe Gasché is Distinguished Professor and Eugenio Donato Chair of Comparative Literature at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I. Persuasion (Aristotle)1. A Truth Resembling Truth2. Probability or Necessity3. Logos, Topos, StoikheionPart II. Reflection (Heidegger) 4. Breaking with the Primacy of the Theoretical5. The Genesis of the Theoretical6. Beyond Theory: Theoria, or Watching Over What Is Still to ComePart III. Judgment (Arendt)7. The Space of Appearance8. The Wind of Thought9. A Sense of the WorldNotesBibliographyIndex

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