The Presocratics after Heidegger

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The Presocratics after Heidegger

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David C. Jacobs - Editor

SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy

Price: $56.50
Hardcover - 302 pages

Release Date: May 1999

ISBN10: 0-7914-4199-7
ISBN13: 978-0-7914-4199-2

Price: $31.95
Paperback - 302 pages

Release Date: May 1999

ISBN10: 0-7914-4200-4
ISBN13: 978-0-7914-4200-5

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Summary

Reads Presocratics such as Homer, Anaximander, Anaximenes, Parmenides, Heraclitus, and Empedocles from within the realm opened up by Heidegger's thinking.

Offering a diversity of strategies and approaches to the philosophical issues involved in reading and thinking about the Presocratics in the wake of Martin Heidegger's thought, the authors explicate the thinking of key figures such as Homer, Anaximander, Anaximenes, Parmenides, Heraclitus, and Empedocles. The philosophical problems of logos, logic, truth, history, tradition, ethics, and tragedy are presented and re-thought in relation to Heidegger's thinking. Not only is the role of the Presocratics in Heidegger's reading re-thought but also, following a trajectory opened up by Heidegger, questions and readings of the Presocratics that he himself did not broach are pursued. These include: How does logos change in Heidegger's dialogue with the Presocratics? What is the place of the Presocratics in the "other inception" of thinking? How is Heidegger's reading of tragedy also a dialogue with Nietzsche and Holderlin? How do concealment and disclosure function in Homer's corpus? Do the pronouncements of Anaximander bring us to think the beginning of history and to question the need for ethics and justice? How does Anaximenes come to think and speak all that manifests itself? What is the role of presence in Parmenides' divine pedagogy? How does Heidegger come to remember Heraclitus and what is the disruptive nature of Heraclitus' sayings?

"This is the first in-depth treatment of the pre-metaphysical dimension of Greek thought from a loosely Heideggerian perspective. The quality here is in the contributors that Jacobs has assembled--in general the best figures for such a project among American continental philosophers with additional contributions from abroad." -- Tom Davis, Whitman College

"The list of contributors--from Heidegger himself, through Gadamer, Serres, and Courtine, to the very best of Heidegger's American readers--will secure a wide readership for this volume. These readers will not be disappointed." -- Robert Bernasconi, The University of Memphis

Contributors include Walter A. Brogan, Jean-Franccois Courtine (translated by Kristen Switala and Rebekah Sterling), Parvis Emad, Veronique M. Foti, Hans-Georg Gadamer (translated by Peter Warnek), Martin Heidegger (translated by Will McNeill), David C. Jacobs, David Farrell Krell, Michael Naas, John Sallis, Dennis J. Schmidt, Charles E. Scott, and Michel Serres (translated by Roxanne Lapidus).

David C. Jacobs is Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction: Heidegger, the History of Being, the Presocratics
David C. Jacobs

1
The Destruction of Logic: From L óyos to Language Jean-François Courtine
Translated By Kristin Switala And Rebekah Sterling

2
The Place of the Presocratics in Heidegger's Beiträge zur Philosophie
Parvis Emad

3
Keeping Homer's Word: Heidegger And The Epic Of Truth
Michael Naas

4
Kalypso: Homeric Concealments After Nietzsche, Heidegger, Derrida, And Lacan
David Farrell Krell

5
Anaximander: A Founding Name in History
Michel Serres
Translated By Roxanne Lapidus

6
Doubles of Anaximenes
John Sallis

7
What We Didn't See
Dennis J. Schmidt

8
The Last, Undelivered Lecture (XII) from Summer Semester 1952
Martin Heidegger
Translated By Will Mcneill

9
The Ontological Education of Parmenides
David C. Jacobs

10
Heraclitus Studies
Hans-Georg Gadamer
Translated By Peter Warnek

11
Appearing to Remember Heraclitus
Charles E. Scott

12
Heraclitus, Philosopher of the Sign
Walter A. Brogan

13
Empedocles and Tragic Thought: Heidegger, Hölderlin, Nietzsche
Véronique M. Fóti

Contributors

Index

Related Subjects

Ancient Greek Philosophy
Continental Philosophy
Heidegger

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