logocentric
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- adjective
- /ˌloʊɡoʊˈsɛntrɪk/
- Jargon
- Aristotle's willingness to include phronesis as an intellectual virtue suggests a slight broadening of the notion of reason beyond the tight logocentric rationalism that is often attributed to him.
- logocentric tradition
Examples
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In Derridean terms, this appears to be a logocentric privileging of speech over writing.
Academic text (1992) -
Many philosophers argue that a logocentric approach prioritizes language over other forms of understanding.
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China is not, in this sense, a predominantly logocentric civilization.
Academic text (2000) -
Greek civilization was, I think, in this sense predominantly logocentric.
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The dominant culture in India, certainly, was almost obsessively logocentric.
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Language is, however, at the same time logocentric and incapable of leading to anything but silence and negativity.
Academic text (1993) -
All the above narratives are explicitly Western, Eurocentric, logocentric, and male-dominated.
Academic text (2017) -
While the logocentric mind follows a linear causeway, the creative mind flows circuitously, but spontaneously, through images.
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Such linguistic or logocentric approaches to the arts have tended to distort or blur understandings of art on its own terms.
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His theology is profoundly logocentric, and this interest in the primacy of the Word influences the way that he handles his martyr accounts.
Academic text (2002)
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word logocentric comes from the Greek root logos meaning 'word' or 'reason' and the ending -centric, which means 'centered on', like in egocentric. So a logocentric view puts language or reason at the center of meaning.