Heidegger and Plato Paperback / softback
Edited by Catalin Partenie, Tom Rockmore
Part of the Topics in Historical Philosophy series
Paperback / softback
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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.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:252 pages
- Publisher:Northwestern University Press
- Publication Date:30/08/2005
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- ISBN:9780810122338
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Out of Stock - We are unable to provide an estimated availability date for this product
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:252 pages
- Publisher:Northwestern University Press
- Publication Date:30/08/2005
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- ISBN:9780810122338
