Plato and Heidegger
Subtitle: a question of dialogue
By: Francisco J. Gonzalez.
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: University Park, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9780271035581
Subjects: Heidegger, Martin, -- 1889-1976; Plato
Description: "A study of Martin Heidegger's engagement with the philosophy of Plato. Examines how Heidegger's understanding--and misunderstanding--of Plato can help in assessing Heidegger's own philosophical program"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: What is to be gained from a confrontation between Plato and Heidegger?; title: Heidegger's critical reading of Plato in the 1920s; title: Dialectic, ethics, and dialogue; title: Heidegger's critique of dialectic in the 1920s; title: Ethics and ontology; title: Ethics in Plato's sophist; title: Heidegger and dialogue; title: Logos and being; title: The tensions in Heidegger's critique; title: The guiding perspective of Plato as undermining the ontic/ontological distinction; title: Heidegger on Plato's forms; title: Conclusion: The relation between being and Heidegger on Plato's truth and untruth in the 1930s and 1940s; title: From the 1931-32 and 1933-34 courses on the essence of truth to "Plato's doctrine; title: Of truth" : Heidegger's transformation of Plato into platonism through the interpretation of the sun and cave analogies of the republic; title: The courses on the essence of truth from WS 1931/32 and WS 1933/34; title: Plato's truth in the beitråge of 1936-38; title: Plato's doctrine of truth in 1940; title: The end of truth : the 1964 retraction; title: Conclusion: The end of truth?; title: The dialogue that could have been : Hidegger on the Theaetetus; title: The Theaetetus interpretation in Die Grundbegriffe der antiken philosophie (SS 1926); title: The interpretation of the Theaetetus in the Vom Wesen der wahrheit course of 1931-32 and 1933-34; title: Conclusion: Heidegger's orthodoxy; title: The 1942 interpretation of Plato in the myth of the (Republic book 10); title: The Roman versus the Greek conception of truth saying in the myth of ER; title: Purging the myth of ER : the ontologizing of ethics and politics; title: The Greek experience of the open : a saying that points and hints versus the "Leap"; title: Conclusion: Leaping beyond Plato; title: Opportunities for a dialogue with Plato in the late Heidegger; title: Calculative thinking, meditative thinking, and the practice of dialogue; title: Heidegger's critique of logos in the 1930s; title: Dialogue as bringing to speech the unsaid; title: Plato's dialectic or Hegel's?; title: A saying beyond assertion; title: Plato's dialogues and Heidegger's leap; title: Heidegger and the dialogue form; title: Redefining hermeneutics; title: Back to the beginning with dialectic and dialogue; title: Conclusion: Dialectic versus sophia again; title: 7 dialectic and phenomenology in "Zeit und Sein" : a pivotal chapter in Heidegger's confrontation with Plato; title: From dialectic and hermeneutics to phenomenology; title: The Auseinandersetzung with Plato.