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Heidegger's Platonism

By Ralkowski, Mark A.

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Heidegger's Platonism

By Ralkowski, Mark A.

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Heidegger's Platonism challenges Heidegger's 1940 interpretation of Plato as the philosopher who initiated the West's ontological decline into contemporary nihilism. Mark A. Ralkowski argues that, in his earlier lecture course, On the Essence of Truth, in which he appropriates Plato in a positive light, Heidegger discovered the two most important concepts of his later thought, namely the difference between the Being of beings and Being as such, and the 'belonging together' of Being and man in what he eventually calls Ereignis, the 'event of appropriation'. Ralkowski shows that, far from being the grand villain of metaphysics, Plato was in fact the gateway to Heidegger's later period. Because Heidegger discovers the seeds of his later thought in his positive appropriation of Plato, this book argues that Heidegger's later thought is a return to and phenomenological transformation of Platonism, which is ironic not least because Heidegger thought of himself as the West's first truly post-Platonic philosopher.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
234
Release Date:
2009-12-01
Publication Date:
2009-12-01
Publisher:
Continnuum-3PL
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1441184899
ISBN13:
9781441184894
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
520 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
17 cm
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