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Heidegger and his Platonic critics / Antoine Pageau-St-Hilaire.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pageau-St-Hilaire, Antoine, author.
- Series:
- Cambridge elements. Elements in the philosophy of Martin Heidegger
- Cambridge elements. Elements in the philosophy of Martin Heidegger, 2976-5668
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976.
- Heidegger, Martin.
- Platonists--Germany--History--20th century.
- Platonists.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (74 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- This Element introduces the arguments of three prominent Platonic critics of Heidegger - Leo Strauss (1899-1973), Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900-2002), and Jan Patočka (1907-1977) - with the aim of evaluating the trenchancy of their criticisms. The author shows that these three thinkers uncover novel ways of reading Plato non-metaphysically (where metaphysics is understood in the Heideggerian sense) and thus of undermining Heidegger's narrative concerning Platonism as metaphysics and metaphysics as Platonism. In their readings of the Platonic dialogues, Plato emerges as a proto-phenomenologist whose attention to the ethical-political facticity of human beings leads to the acknowledgment of human finitude and of the fundamental elusiveness of Being. These Platonic critics of Heidegger thus invite us to see in the dialogues a lucid presentation of philosophic questioning rather than the beginning of distorting doctrinal teachings.
- Contents:
- Strauss’s zetetic Platonism
- Gadamer’s dialogical Platonism
- Patocka’s negative Platonism
- Conclusion : Heidegger and the Plato who could have been.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 08, 2025).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Pageau-St-Hilaire, Antoine. Heidegger and his Platonic critics
- ISBN:
- 9781009582513
- 1009582518
- 9781009582483
- 1009582488
- OCLC:
- 1517975161
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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