The beginning of western philosophy : interpretation of Anaximander and Parmenides / Martin Heidegger ; translated by Richard Rojcewicz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976, author.

Contributor:

Rojcewicz, Richard, translator.

Series:

Studies in Continental thought.

Studies in Continental Thought

Standardized Title:

Anfang der abendländischen Philosophie. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pre-Socratic philosophers.

Anaximander.

Parmenides.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (234 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Volume 35 of Heidegger's Complete Works comprises a lecture course given at the University of Freiburg in 1932, five years after the publication of Being and Time. During this period, Heidegger was at the height of his creative powers, which are on full display in this clear and imaginative text. In it, Heidegger leads his students in a close reading of two of the earliest philosophical source documents, fragments by Greek thinkers Anaximander and Parmenides. Heidegger develops their common theme of Being and non-being and shows that the question of Being is indeed the origin of Western philos

Contents:

Cover; The Beginning of Western Philosophy; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; Translator's Introduction; PART ONE THE DICTUM OF ANAXIMANDER OF MILETUS, 6TH-5TH CENTURY; Introduction; 1. The mission and the dictum; a) Cessation and beginning; b) The dictum in the customary translations; Chapter I The first phase of the interpretation; A. THE FIRST SECTION OF THE STATEMENT; 2. The theme of the dictum: beings as a whole; a) The meaning of τα ̀ον̓́τα; b) Beings in γεν́εσις και ̀φθορά

c) εξ̓ ων̔͂-εις̓ ταυτ͂α-the whence-whither-our characterization of stepping forth and receding. Inadequacy of speaking about a "basic matter"d) The whence and whither of the stepping-forth and receding κατα ̀το ̀χρεων́-according to necessity; B. THE SECOND SECTION OF THE STATEMENT; 3. Beings in the relation of compliance and noncompliance; a) Stepping forth and receding as giving way before, and against, each other; b) The inadequacy of the juridical-moral meanings of δικ́η, τισ́ις, and αδ̓ικιά; c) αδ̓ικιά as noncompliance, δικ́η as compliance; d) Translation of the second section of the statement

C. THE THIRD SECTION OF THE STATEMENT4. Being and time; a) Beings κατα ̀την̀ του ͂χρον́ου ταξ́ιν. Time as measure; b) Insight into χρον́ος by appealing to Sophocles; c) Being and time as φυσ́ις; Chapter II The second phase of the interpretation; 5. The unitary content of the pronouncement on the basis of its central core; a) The essential power of Being as noncompliance; b) The noncompliance. Day and night as the basic appearance; c) Noncompliance: persistence in contours over and against contourlessness; compliance: return to contourlessness; Chapter III The other dictum

6. The sovereign source of beings as the empowering power of appearancea) The αῤχη ̀των͂ ον̓́των; b) το ̀απ̓́ειρον as the empowering power of appearance; c) το ̀απ̓́ειρον, or, the difference between Being and beings; PART TWO INTERPOSED CONSIDERATIONS; 7. Four objections to the interpretation; a) The dictum is too far removed and is antiquated, crude and meager, unreal; b) Presuppositions of the objections in a self-delusion; c) What the self-delusion consists in; d) The distance from the beginning of Western philosophy; 8. The negative relation to the beginning; a) The wanderer and the spring

b) The closest proximity of the concealed beginningc) The inability to do anything with the beginning; 9. Meditation on the "current situation"; a) Who is asking about the beginning? Toward determining the "we"; b) The concept of generation as off the path; c) The determination of the current situation by Friedrich Nietzsche; 10. The grounding utterance of Being; a) The characterization of the beginning; b) The pronouncement as an answer to a question; c) Questioning as a questioning that discloses Being; d) The essence of questioning; various modes of questioning

e) The question of Being as the most originary, first, and last question

Notes:

"Published in German as Martin Heidegger, Gesamtausgabe 35: Der Anfang der abendlandischen Philosophie, Auslegung des Anaximander und Parmenides, ed. Peter Trawny (c) 2012 by Vittorio Klostermann GmbH, Frankfurt am Main."

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780253015617

0253015618

OCLC:

903314495