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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gonzalez, Francisco J., 1963-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plato.

Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976.

Language and languages--Philosophy.

Language and languages.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (376 p.)

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780271074337

0271074337

9780271050294

0271050292

OCLC:

785781059