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Index
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: What Is to Be Gained from a Confrontation Between Plato and Heidegger?
Part One: Heidegger’s Critical Reading of Plato in the 1920s
1. Dialectic, Ethics, and Dialogue
Heidegger’s Critique of Dialectic in the 1920s
Ethics and Ontology
Ethics in Plato’s Sophist
Heidegger and Dialogue
Conclusion
2. Logos and Being
The Tensions in Heidegger’s Critique
The Guiding Perspective of Λόγoς as Undermining the Ontic/Ontological Distinction
Heidegger on Plato’s Forms
Being as Δύναμις
Conclusion: The Relation Between Being and Λόγoς
Part Two: Heidegger on Plato’s Truth and Untruth in the 1930s and 1940s
3. 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 Cave Analogies of the Republic
The Courses on the Essence of Truth from WS 1931/32 and WS 1933/34
Plato’s Truth in the Beiträge of 1936–38
Plato’s Doctrine of Truth in 1940
The End of Truth: The 1964 Retraction
Conclusion: The End of Truth?
4. The Dialogue That Could Have Been: Heidegger on the Theaetetus
The Theaetetus Interpretation in Die Grundbegriffe der antiken Philosophie (SS 1926)
The Interpretation of the Theaetetus in the Vom Wesen der Wahrheit Course of 1931–32 and 1933–34
Conclusion: Heidegger’s Orthodoxy
5. The 1942 Interpretation of Λήθη in the Myth of Er (Republic Book 10)
The Roman Versus the Greek Conception of Truth
Saying Λήθη in the Myth of Er
Purging the Myth of Er: The Ontologizing of Ethics and Politics
The Greek Experience of the Open: A Saying That Points and Hints Versus the “Leap”
Conclusion: Leaping Beyond Plato
Part Three: Opportunities for a Dialogue with Plato in the Late Heidegger
6. Calculative Thinking, Meditative Thinking, and the Practice of Dialogue
Heidegger’s Critique of Logos in the 1930s
Dialogue as Bringing to Speech the Unsaid
Plato’s Dialectic or Hegel’s?
A Saying Beyond Assertion
Plato’s Dialogues and Heidegger’s Leap
Heidegger and the Dialogue Form
Redefining Hermeneutics
Back to the Beginning with Dialectic and Dialogue
Conclusion: Dialectic Versus Sophia Again
7. Dialectic and Phenomenology in “Zeit und Sein”: A Pivotal Chapter in Heidegger’s Confrontation with Plato
From Dialectic and Hermeneutics to Phenomenology
The Auseinandersetzung with Plato
Conclusion
Works Cited
Notes
Index
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