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Plato and Heidegger : a question of dialogue / Francisco J. Gonzalez

Author
Gonzalez, Francisco J., 1963-
Published
University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2009]
Copyright Date
©2009
Physical Description
xv, 358 pages ; 25 cm

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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.
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.
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ISBN
9780271035581 (cloth : alk. paper)
0271035587 (cloth : alk. paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [347]-351) and index.
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