Editing Logocentrism (section)

{{Short description|Term in philosophy coined by Ludwig Klages}}
"'''Logocentrism'''" is a term coined by the German philosopher [[Ludwig Klages]] in the early 1900s.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Josephson-Storm |first1=Jason |title=The Myth of Disenchantment: Magic, Modernity, and the Birth of the Human Sciences |publisher=University of Chicago Press |isbn=9780226403533 |pages=221}}</ref> It refers to the tradition of Western science and philosophy that regards words and language as a fundamental expression of an external reality. It holds the [[logos]] as epistemologically superior and that there is an original, irreducible object which the logos represent. According to logocentrism, the logos is the ideal representation of the [[Platonic ideal]].