Heidegger And Plato

by Partenie, Catalin; Rockmore, Tom

• ISBN13: 9780810122338
• ISBN10: 0810122332
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-08-30
• Publisher: Northwestern Univ Pr

Summary

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'sBeing 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.

Author Biography

Catalin Partenie is a fellow in the Department of Philosophy, University of Quebec at Montreal. He is editor of Plato: Selected Myths (Oxford, 2004).

Tom Rockmore is professor of philosophy at Duquesne University and the author of many books, most recently Marx after Marxism (Blackwell, 2002). He is also co-editor with Daniel Breazeale of New Essays on Fichte's Later Jena Wissenschaftslehre (Northwestern, 2002).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
List of Abbreviations	xi
Introduction	xix
On the Purported Platonism of Heidegger's Rectoral Address	3	(19)
Theodore Kisiel
Plato's Legacy in Heidegger's Two Readings of Antigone	22	(20)
Jacques Taminiaux
Imprint: Heidegger's Interpretation of Platonic Dialectic in the Sophist Lectures (1924--25)	42	(30)
Catalin Partenie
Truth and Untruth in Plato and Heidegger	72	(24)
Michael Inwood
Heidegger and the Platonic Concept of Truth	96	(12)
Enrico Berti
Amicus Plato magis amica veritas: Reading Heidegger in Plato's Cave	108	(13)
Maria del Carmen Paredes
Heidegger on Truth and Being	121	(19)
Joseph Margolis
With Plato into the Kairos before the Kehre: On Heidegger's Different Interpretations of Plato	140	(38)
Johannes Fritsche
Remarks on Heidegger's Plato	178	(14)
Stanley Rosen
Heidegger's Uses of Plato and the History of Philosophy	192	(21)
Tom Rockmore
Appendix 1: Selected Platonic Loci and Issues Discussed or Referred to by Heidegger	213	(7)
Appendix 2: Further Reading	220	(3)
References	223	(10)
Contributors	233