The Presocratics After Heidegger (Suny Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy)

Offering A Diversity Of Strategies And Approaches To The Philosophical Issues Involved In Reading And Thinking About The Presocratics In The Wake Of Martin Heidegger's Thought, The Authors Explicate The Thinking Of Key Figures Such As Homer, Anaximander, Anaximenes, Parmenides, Heraclitus, And Empedocles. The Philosophical Problems Of Logos, Logic, Truth, History, Tradition, Ethics, And Tragedy Are Presented And Re-thought In Relation To Heidegger's Thinking. Not Only Is The Role Of The Presocratics In Heidegger's Reading Re-thought But Also, Following A Trajectory Opened Up By Heidegger, Questions And Readings Of The Presocratics That He Himself Did Not Broach Are Pursued. These Include: How Does Logos Change In Heidegger's Dialogue With The Presocratics? What Is The Place Of The Presocratics In The Other Inception Of Thinking? How Is Heidegger's Reading Of Tragedy Also A Dialogue With Nietzsche And Holderlin? How Do Concealment And Disclosure Function In Homer's Corpus? Do The Pronouncements Of Anaximander Bring Us To Think The Beginning Of History And To Question The Need For Ethics And Justice? How Does Anaximenes Come To Think And Speak All That Manifests Itself? What Is The Role Of Presence In Parmenides' Divine Pedagogy? How Does Heidegger Come To Remember Heraclitus And What Is The Disruptive Nature Of Heraclitus' Sayings? Book Jacket.--book Jacket. Introduction : Heidegger, The History Of Being, The Presocratics / David C. Jacobs -- The Destruction Of Logic : From Logos To Language / Jean-françois Courtine -- The Place Of The Presocratics In Heidegger's Beiträge Zur Philosophie / Parvis Emad -- Keeping Homer's Word : Heidegger And The Epic Of Truth / Michael Naas -- Kalypso : Homeric Concealments After Nietzsche, Heidegger, Derrida, And Lacan / David Farrell Krell -- Anaximander : A Founding Name In History / Michel Serres -- Doubles Of Anaximenes / John Sallis -- What We Didn't See / Dennis J. Schmidt -- The Last, Undelivered Lecture (xii) From Summer Semester, 1952 / Martin Heidegger -- The Ontological Education Of Parmenides / David C. Jacobs -- Heraclitus Studies / Hans-georg Gadamer -- Appearing To Remember Heraclitus / Charles E. Scott -- Heraclitus, Philosopher Of The Sign / Walter A. Brogan -- Empedocles And Tragic Thought : Heidegger, Hölderlin, Nietzsche / Véronique M. Fóti. Edited By David C. Jacobs. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Reads Presocratics such as Homer, Anaximander, Anaximenes, Parmenides, Heraclitus, and Empedocles from within the realm opened up by Heidegger's thinking.Offering a diversity of strategies and approaches to the philosophical issues involved in reading and thinking about the Presocratics in the wake of Martin Heidegger's thought, the authors explicate the thinking of key figures such as Homer, Anaximander, Anaximenes, Parmenides, Heraclitus, and Empedocles. The philosophical problems of logos, logic, truth, history, tradition, ethics, and tragedy are presented and re-thought in relation to Heidegger's thinking. Not only is the role of the Presocratics in Heidegger's reading re-thought but also, following a trajectory opened up by Heidegger, questions and readings of the Presocratics that he himself did not broach are pursued. These include: How does logos change in Heidegger's dialogue with the Presocratics? What is the place of the Presocratics in the “other inception” of thinking? How is Heidegger's reading of tragedy also a dialogue with Nietzsche and Ho¬lderlin? How do concealment and disclosure function in Homer's corpus? Do the pronouncements of Anaximander bring us to think the beginning of history and to question the need for ethics and justice? How does Anaximenes come to think and speak all that manifests itself? What is the role of presence in Parmenides'divine pedagogy? How does Heidegger come to remember Heraclitus and what is the disruptive nature of Heraclitus'sayings?Contributors include Walter A. Brogan, Jean-Francois Courtine (translated by Kristen Switala and Rebekah Sterling), Parvis Emad, VeŒronique M. FoŒti, Hans-Georg Gadamer (translated by Peter Warnek), Martin Heidegger (translated by Will McNeill), David C. Jacobs, David Farrell Krell, Michael Naas, John Sallis, Dennis J. Schmidt, Charles E. Scott, and Michel Serres (translated by Roxanne Lapidus).David C. Jacobs is Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Offering a diversity of strategies and approaches to the philosophical issues involved in reading and thinking about the Presocratics in the wake of Martin Heidegger's thought, the authors explicate the thinking of key figures such as Homer, Anaximander, Anaximeries, Parmenides, Heraclitus, and Empedocles. The philosophical problems of logos, logic, truth, history, tradition, ethics, and tragedy are presented and re-thought in relation to Heidegger's thinking. Not only is the role of the Presocratics in Heidegger's reading re-thought but also, following a trajectory opened up by Heidegger, questions and reading of the Presocratics that he himself did not broach are pursued. These include: How does logos change in Heidegger's dialogue with the Presocratics? What is the place of the Presocratics in the "other inception" of thinking? How is Heidegger's reading of tragedy also a dialogue with Nietzsche and Holderlin? How do concealment and disclosure function in Homer's corpus? Do the pronouncements of Anaximader bring us to think the beginning of story and to question the need for ethics and justice? How does Anaximenes come to think and speak all that manifests itself? What is the role of presence in Parmenides' divine pedagogy? ow does Heidegger come to remember Heraditus and what is the disruptive nature of Hearclitus' sayings?