Explores Martin Heidegger's rich and profound engagement with ancient philosophy and literature and demonstrates both his essential place within the discourse of classical studies and the fundamental significance of classical thought for his own work.
Despite a sustained and fruitful relationship with the classical philologists of his day, Martin Heidegger's status among classicists has long since been strained, especially in the Anglophone tradition. Heidegger and Classical Thought reemphasizes both Heidegger's importance to classical discourse and the significance of classical discourse for Heidegger's own work. The essays found in this book demonstrate the depth and breadth of Heidegger's engagement with classical thought throughout his life, from his early engagements with Aristotle and Plato to his profound readings of the early Greek thinkers. At the same time, this book shows how reading Heidegger's interpretation of classical thought offers new and innovative ways to approach and study antiquity.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Aaron Turner
Part 1: Heidegger and Early Greek Thought
1. Heidegger, Tragedy, and the Ethics of the Uncanny: Reading Sophocles's Antigone
Charles Bambach
2. Heidegger's "Pre-Aristotelians": Nietzsche and Heidegger on Anaximander
Babette Babich
3. Alien Historicity: Ancestral Fictions in Heidegger, Derrida, and H. P. Lovecraft
Mark Payne
4. Disciples of Empedocles: Hölderlin, Nietzsche, and... Heidegger?
David Farrell Krell
Part 2: Heidegger and Plato
5. From Parmenides to Plato via Thucydides: On the Way to Metaphysics
Aaron Turner
6. Another Chorology: Reading Heidegger's Plato Books
Bret W. Davis
7. The Philosopher and the City: Heidegger Reading Plato's Republic
Dennis J. Schmidt
Part 3: Heidegger and Aristotle
8. Heidegger's Perversion of Virtue Ethics, 1924
Sacha Golob
9. The Temporality of Life: Reading Aristotle with and Against Heidegger in Two Unpublished Seminars from 1923–1925
Francisco J. Gonzalez
10. The Sky, from Below: Heidegger, Aristotle, and the Orientation of the Gaze
Claudia Baracchi
11. Pity, Fear and Catharsis from a Heideggerian Perspective
Robert Eaglestone
12. Rationalizing the Animal in Humanity: On Speaking with Neither Cause nor Purpose
Laurence Hemming
13. Hiding in Plain Sight: Κίνησις at the Core of Heidegger's Work
Thomas Sheehan
14. Animal and World in Heidegger and Aristotle
Sara Brill
Abbreviations
Contributors
Index
