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Title: Parmenides (Studies in Continental Thought)
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| Parmenides (Studies in Continental Thought) by Indiana University Press Propably the best in understanding Heidegger's fundamentals | Hiedegger's thought has been developed and published in hundred of volumes.For us ,non academics, it is almost impossible to access all this "treasury" and we have to try some of Heidegger's most popular books.
In fact this book is one of the very few ,that gives you the chance in understanding the roots of Heidegger's philosophical program.It is not just an analysis of Parmenides and Heraclitus Heidegger's favourite themes of unconcealment and presence,but reader will have the pleasure in finding philosophical basics bulding Heidegger's conception of Technology,Phenomenology & Art. | | Parmenides (Studies in Continental Thought) by Indiana University Press Heidegger does it again | | The "Parmenides and Heraclitus" lecture course of 1942-3 is decisive for understanding the relationship between the Greek experience of truth as a-letheia and Heidegger's exposition of Being in Being and Time (the lecture on Plato's Sophist is equally important). This lecture course also helps to clarify Heidegger's relationship with Nietzsche and is essential for a confrontation with the Nietzsche lectures (sp. Heidegger's characterization of the will to power as the will to will). In addition, although Heidegger rarely mentions Hegel directly, this lecture course enters into an implicit dialogue with Hegel's lectures on the history of philosophy. Heidegger's characterization of history as the "transformation of the essence of truth" is momentous. Incidentally, Liddell-Scott defines aidos as "moral feeling, reverence, awe, respect for the feeling or opinion of others or for one's own conscience, and so shame, self-respect." In fact in the detailed analysis it goes so far as to say "personified, Reverence, Pi.O.7.44," that is, it specifically defines the "aidos" mentioned by Heidegger in the 7th Olympian Ode as the personification of reverence. Undermining Heidegger's so-called linguistic analysis/exegesis on the basis of his affiliation with Nazism or Catholocism is a sign of the refusal to take Heidegger's comments to heart. | | Parmenides (Studies in Continental Thought) by Indiana University Press A View from the Heights | | The official title of this series of lectures is "Parmenides and Heraclitus". Although Heraclitus quickly slips out of the picture, and Heidegger often gets of the track of Parmenides as well, this book offers commanding vistas not only of the pre-Socratics, but also of the question of being, the nature of the Greek gods, and all of Western history. Heidegger's interpretation of truth as "un-concealment" or "dis-closure" is truly mind-opening. A caveat though: Heidegger often takes too many liberties with Greek terms; his explanation of aidos (shame or reverence), for instance, owes more to German peasant mystical Catholicism than to anything Greek. | | Parmenides (Studies in Continental Thought) by Indiana University Press Brilliant but perverse exegesis | | Heidegger conducts a brilliant tour of Parmenides' fragments, with boatloads of illuminating detours through nearly all of Greek philosophy and history, and much of Western history as well. His insights into the nature of Greek gods and myth, truth as "un-concealment" or "dis-closure", and the development of human thought are indispensable. At times, however, he takes undue liberties - his interpretation of aidos (shame) as "reverence" is particularly far from the mark. As always, the prose is dense, but worth slogging through. |
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