Recapitulations: Essays in Philosophy (Studies in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy)

Provides commentary on prominent philosophers on important philosophical themes. "These unusual and exquisite essays focus on a problem or a text with extraordinary acuity". Contents Foreword Preface Chronology and Acknowledgments of Previous Publication 1. The Dramatic Form of Plato's Phaedo 2. Aristotelian Themes 3. Providence and Imitation: Sophocles' Oedipus Rex and Aristotle's Poetics 4. Notes on Nature The City and the Garden Nature and Gods in Epicureanism Hobbes's Sovereign Teaching 5. A Reading of Augustine's Confessions, Book X 6. Creation, Solitude and Publicity 7. Juxtapositions: Aristotle, Aquinas, Strauss 8. A Reading of Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature 9· Husserlian Distinctions and Strategies in The Crisis 10. Quotation and Writing, Egos and Tokenings, Variables and Gaps 11. The Logic of Modernity 12. Husserl, Heidegger, Early and Late, and Aquinas 13· The Death of Charm and the Advent of Grace: Waugh's Brideshead Revisited Scholium I (Chapter 11): Two Doxologies: Argument and Praise Scholium II (Chapter 12): Glosses on Heidegger's Architectonic Word-Play Scholium III (Chapter 12): Heidegger between (Gadamer's) Plato and Aristotle