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Plato and Heidegger : a question of dialogue
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Plato and Heidegger : a question of dialogue

Author: Francisco J Gonzalez
Publisher: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2009.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"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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Named Person: Martin Heidegger; Plato.; Plato; Martin Heidegger
Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Francisco J Gonzalez
ISBN: 9780271035581 0271035587 0271035595 9780271035598
OCLC Number: 315239098
Description: xv, 358 p. ; 25 cm.
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.
Responsibility: Francisco J. Gonzalez.

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"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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