ENGLISHGERMAN

The beginning of western philosophy : interpretation of Anaximander and Parmenides

By Anaximander.; Anaximander; Heidegger , Martin; Parmenides.; Eleates Parmenides

Book information

Publisher
Indiana University Press
Year
2015
ISBN
0253015537, 978-0-253-01553-2, 978-0-253-01561-7, 0253015618
Language
englishgerman
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1202729 bytes)
Series
Studies in continental thought
Edition
Tra
Pages
240\234
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
-- 1889-1976. PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- A-- approximately 515-445 v. Chr. Anaximander-- approximately 610-540 v.Chr. Heidegger-- EleatesMartinParmenides. Anaximander. Pre-Socratic philosophers

Description

Volume 35 of Heidegger’s Complete Works comprises a lecture course given at the University of Freiburg in 1932, five years after the publication of Being and Time. During this period, Heidegger was at the height of his creative powers, which are on full display in this clear and imaginative text. In it, Heidegger leads his students in a close reading of two of the earliest philosophical source documents, fragments by Greek thinkers Anaximander and Parmenides. Heidegger develops their common theme of Being and non-being and shows that the question of Being is indeed the origin of Western philosophy. His engagement with these Greek texts is as much of a return to beginnings as it is a potential reawakening of philosophical wonder and inquiry in the present.

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