Eraclito

Hegel said that his entire philosophy is indebted and a continuation of Heraclitus thinking; while at the same time Hegel understood the early Greeks as the first and immediate phase of his dialectical and then speculative understanding of the Absolute Spirit in History. But what if Hegel just under Leggi tutto

Heraclitus is either dismissed as “The Obscure” or translated and interpreted from within the modern and metaphysical thinking. For Heidegger, there is more - far more - to Heraclitus understood as the main inceptional thinker along with Parmenides. Metaphysics translates and understands Ἀλήθεια as Leggi tutto

This book contains the proceedings of the 1966/67 seminar on Heraclitus, which was held at the University of Freiburg. Initially, the plan was for the seminar to expand over a series of semesters but this was never actualized. The reader has the opportunity to witness a live dialogue, conducted main Leggi tutto

This book is very difficult, and I wouldn't recommend it unless you're familar with Heidegger's other accounts of the presocratic philosophers and also have a good knowledge of Heraclitus. Without the latter it would probably be tough to follow the twists and turns of Heidegger and Fink's analysis,

I liked the fact that Fink starts with 64 and not with 10, Heidegger gets much too abstract at times. The translation isn't the best possible, but originals usually read better, so that's no criticism of Mr Seibert who did a creditable job. Perhaps a link to the actual Fragments would have helped >> ht Leggi tutto

Heidegger's dialogic lecture style at its best, with help from Eugene Fink.

This is a set of two courses of lectures given by Heidegger in 1943 and 1944, focusing on a selection of fragments from Heraclitus that Heidegger considers critical to understanding the pre-Socratic Greek experience of Being. We’ll get to what that means later. The text is from Heidegger’s own manusc Leggi tutto

Given that Heidegger is often considered to be at his best in the classroom setting (not that I ever took a course from him, but this is from other 20th Century philosophers who spoke in awe of him and his unique teaching ability), I had high hopes for this book: Heidegger along with a philologist ( Leggi tutto