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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778902503321

Autore

Gonzalez Francisco J. <1963->

Titolo

Plato and Heidegger : A Question of Dialogue / / Francisco J. Gonzalez

Pubbl/distr/stampa

University Park, Pa. : , : Pennsylvania State University Press, , 2009

©2009

ISBN

0-271-07433-7

0-271-05029-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (376 p.)

Disciplina

193

Soggetti

Language and languages - Philosophy

PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: What is to be gained from a confrontation between Plato and Heidegger? -- Heidegger's critical reading of Plato in the 1920s. Dialectic, ethics, and dialogue ; Logos and being -- Heidegger on Plato's truth and untruth in the 1930s and 1940s. From the 1931-32 and 1933-34 courses on the essence of truth to "Plato's doctrine of truth" : Heidegger's transformation of Plato into Platonism through the interpretation of the sun and cava analogies of the Republic ; The dialogue that could have been : Heidegger on the Theaetetus ; The 1942 interpretation of [lethe] in the myth of Er (Republic Book 10) -- Opportunities for a dialogue with Plato in the late Heidegger. Calculative thinking, meditative thinking, and the practice of dialogue ; Dialectic and phenomenology in "Zeit und Sein" : a pivotal chapter in Heidegger's confrontation with Plato.

Sommario/riassunto

"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.