SELECTION CRITERIA
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Is this work a node that cannot be bypassed? Does its exclusion produce a materially impoverished understanding of the tradition's development? Works that are merely important are not sufficient. Only works that are structurally necessary qualify.
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Can Logos produce or commission a translation that meets our editorial standards? If the state of available scholarship does not support a rigorous bilingual or trilingual edition, the work is deferred until the appropriate scholarship exists or can be produced.
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Does this work belong at this point in the programme? The sequence is constructed so that each edition illuminates what follows and deepens what precedes it. Works that are philosophically necessary may nonetheless be deferred to a position in the sequence where they will land with greater force.
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Is the scholarly apparatus — introduction, notes, translator's preface, contextual materials — of sufficient quality to accompany the text? The physical edition is not published until every element of the editorial apparatus meets the standard applied to the translation itself.
WHAT WE DO NOT PUBLISH
Logos does not publish introductory guides, commentary volumes, or secondary literature as primary editions. Every Logos edition centres on a primary philosophical text. Commentary and scholarship appear within the edition as apparatus, never as the edition's primary object.
We do not publish works selected primarily for their contemporary cultural relevance, for commercial performance in the philosophy category, or because they have received recent popular attention. The programme is indifferent to such considerations. It is attentive only to the internal demands of the philosophical tradition being constructed.
PROGRAMME DEVELOPMENT
The Logos programme is developed with a rolling horizon of approximately three years. Works confirmed for the near term are in active editorial production. Works identified for the medium term are in pre-production — translation commissions, scholarly introductions, and physical specifications are being developed in parallel.
Members are not given advance notice of upcoming titles except through the editorial programme notes that accompany each edition, which situate the current work within the wider sequence and gesture toward the philosophical problems the next edition will address.
