The Presocratics After Heidegger

by Jacobs, David C.

• ISBN13: 9780791442005
• ISBN10: 0791442004
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-06-01
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Summary

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, Anaximeries, 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 reading 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 Anaximader bring us to think the beginning of story and to ques

Author Biography

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

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Abbrviations	xi
Introduction: Heidegger, the History of Being, the Presocratics	1	(24)
David C. Jacobs
The Destruction of Logic: From Aoyo to Language	25	(30)
Jean-Francois Courtine
Kristin Switala
Rebekah Sterling
The Place of the Presocratics in Heidegger's Beitrage zur Philosophie	55	(18)
Parvis Emad
Keeping Homer's Word: Heidegger and the Epic of Truth	73	(28)
Michael Naas
Kalypso: Homeric Concealments after Nietzsche, Heidegger, Derrida, and Lacan	101	(34)
David Farrell Krell
Anaximander: A Founding Name in History	135	(10)
Michel Serres
Roxanne Lapidus
Doubles of Anaximenes	145	(8)
John Sallis
What We Didn't See	153	(18)
Dennis J. Schmidt
The Last, Undelivered Lecture (XII) from Summer Semester 1952	171	(14)
Martin Heidegger
Will McNeill
The Ontological Education of Parmenides	185	(18)
David C. Jacobs
Heraclitus Studies	203	(46)
Hans-Georg Gadamer
Peter Warnek
Appearing to Remember Heraclitus	249	(14)
Charles E. Scott
Heraclitus, Philosopher of the Sign	263	(14)
Walter A. Brogan
Empedocles and Tragic Thought: Heidegger, Holderlin, Nietzsche	277	(18)
Veronique M. Foti
Contributors	295	(4)
Index	299