| Heidegger and Plato: Toward Dialogue Contributor(s): Partenie, Catalin (Editor), Rockmore, Tom (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0810122324 ISBN-13: 9780810122321 Publisher: Northwestern University Press OUR PRICE: $69.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2005 Annotation: For Martin Heidegger the "fall" of philosophy into metaphysics begins with Plato. Thus, the relationship between the two philosophers is crucial to an understanding of Heidegger--and, perhaps, even to the whole plausibility of postmodern critiques of metaphysics. It is also, as the essays in this volume attest, highly complex, and possibly founded on a questionable understanding of Plato. As editors Catalin Partenie and Tom Rockmore remark, a simple way to describe Heidegger's reading of Plato might be to say that what began as an attempt to appropriate Plato (and through him a large portion of Western philosophy) finally ended in an estrangement from both Plato and Western philosophy. The authors of this volume consider Heidegger's thought in relation to Plato before and after the ""Kehre"" or turn. In doing so, they take up various central issues in Heidegger's "Being and Time" (1927) and thereafter, and the questions of hermeneutics, truth, and language. The result is a subtle and multifaceted reinterpretation of Heidegger's position in the tradition of philosophy, and of Plato's role in determining that position. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | History & Surveys - General - Philosophy | Movements - Existentialism |
| Dewey: 193 |
| LCCN: 2004028768 |
| Series: Northwestern University Topics in Historical Philosophy |
| Physical Information: 0.98" H x 6.34" W x 9.42" (1.15 lbs) 264 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Cultural Region - Germany - Cultural Region - Greece |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: For Martin Heidegger the fall of philosophy into metaphysics begins with Plato. Thus, the relationship between the two philosophers is crucial to an understanding of Heidegger--and, perhaps, even to the whole plausibility of postmodern critiques of metaphysics. It is also, as the essays in this volume attest, highly complex, and possibly founded on a questionable understanding of Plato. As editors Catalin Partenie and Tom Rockmore remark, a simple way to describe Heidegger's reading of Plato might be to say that what began as an attempt to appropriate Plato (and through him a large portion of Western philosophy) finally ended in an estrangement from both Plato and Western philosophy. The authors of this volume consider Heidegger's thought in relation to Plato before and after the Kehre or turn. In doing so, they take up various central issues in Heidegger's Being and Time (1927) and thereafter, and the questions of hermeneutics, truth, and language. The result is a subtle and multifaceted reinterpretation of Heidegger's position in the tradition of philosophy, and of Plato's role in determining that position. |
