Heidegger and Classical Thought

Despite a sustained and fruitful relationship with the classical philologists of his day, Martin Heidegger's status among classicists has long since been strained, especially in the Anglophone tradition. Heidegger and Classical Thought reemphasizes both Heidegger's importance to classical discourse and the significance of classical discourse for Heidegger's own work. The essays found in this book demonstrate the depth and breadth of Heidegger's engagement with classical thought throughout his life, from his early engagements with Aristotle and Plato to his profound readings of the early Greek thinkers. At the same time, this book shows how reading Heidegger's interpretation of classical thought offers new and innovative ways to approach and study antiquity. Cover Contents Introduction Heidegger and Early Greek Thought Heidegger and Plato Heidegger and Aristotle Notes Part 1: Heidegger and Early Greek Thought 1. Heidegger, Tragedy, and the Ethics of the Uncanny: Reading Sophocles’s Antigone Tragedy and the German Mission: Reading the Ister Lectures Doubledness, Ambiguity, and the Question of Truth Greek-German Kinship The Ethical Question of Tragedy: Heidegger and Sophocles An Ethics for a World at War? (The Question of the Homeland) Tragedy As the Counterturning Relation between the Homely: Unhomely Hypsipolis/Apolis Antigone against the Measure of Poetic Dwelling Notes 2. Heidegger’s “Pre-Aristotelians”: Nietzsche and Heidegger on Anaximander Beginnings and Successions On Students and Teachers Speaking Wisdom: On Fragments and Their Discontents How to Invent Fragments: On History and Hermeneutic Dogma Thus Spake Anaximander, Thus Spake Heidegger Whose Nietzsche? Whose Greeks? Heidegger’s Pre-Aristotelians Death “Aus der Fuge—Out of Joint” “They Hang On” Notes 3. Alien Historicity: Ancestral Fictions in Heidegger, Derrida, and H. P. Lovecraft Notes 4. Disciples of Empedocles: Hölderlin, Nietzsche, and ... Heidegger? Notes Part 2: Heidegger and Plato 5. From Parmenides to Plato via Thucydides: On the Way to Metaphysics Introduction The Emergence of the Ontological Difference The Emergence of Sophistry ̃»· ̧μÃĬķ Conclusion Notes 6. Another Chorology: Reading Heidegger’s Plato Books Heidegger’s Written and Unwritten Plato Books Heidegger’s Platonic Dialogues: Country Path Conversations Plato before Platonism, Heidegger after Anti-Platonism The Premetaphysical Festival of the Platonic Chorology From Heraclitus to Heidegger’s Other Chorology From Plato’s Inceptual to Heidegger’s Other Chorology An Ambiguous Transformation of the Nature of Nature The Persistent Prevalence of Plato’s Supernatural Orientation The Mortal Recoil: Earthbound After All? Where Is Truth—in Presencing or in Representation? Freeing Beings from Platonic Ideas (Un)conclusion: Interpreting Plato’s Polis as Heidegger’s Lichtung Notes 7. The Philosopher and the City: Heidegger Reading Plato’s Republic Notes Part 3: Heidegger and Aristotle 8. Heidegger’s Perversion of Virtue Ethics, 1924 (§1) Aristotle on Virtue Acquisition (§2) Heidegger on Anxiety and Authenticity (§3) Heidegger on Hexis (§4) Heidegger’s Aristotle on Hermeneutics and the Good (§5) The Perversion of Virtue Ethics Notes 9. The Temporality of Life: Reading Aristotle with and Against Heidegger in Two Unpublished Seminars from 1923–1925 Heidegger on Aristotle in Two Unpublished Seminars The 1924–25 Seminar on the Ontology of the Middle Ages The 1923–24 Seminar on Aristotle’s Physics Heidegger’s Interpretation of Metaphysics Theta Aristotle on the Temporality of Kinêsis and Energeia The Temporality of Energeia in Metaphysics Theta 6 The Temporality of the “Now” in the Physics The Temporality of Common Sense in De Anima Life after Aristotle: The Aiôn in Medieval Ontology Conclusion Notes 10. The Sky, from Below: Heidegger, Aristotle, and the Orientation of the Gaze Notes 11. Pity, Fear and Catharsis from a Heideggerian Perspective Introduction Everyday Conversation and Fear Pity and Being-with Catharsis (again) Conclusion Notes 12. Rationalizing the Animal in Humanity: On Speaking with Neither Cause nor Purpose Notes Phenomenological Experience Intentionality The Phenomenological Reduction ̃»® ̧μ1± Notes Additional Bibliography 14. Animal and World in Heidegger and Aristotle Heidegger’s Cartesianism? The Animal Body as World-ordering Aristotle’s Vitalism? Zoology Anthropology Human Animality Conclusion Notes Abbreviations Heidegger Kant Ancient Sources Contributors Index Explores Martin Heidegger's rich and profound engagement with ancient philosophy and literature and demonstrates both his essential place within the discourse of classical studies and the fundamental significance of classical thought for his own work.