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The Presocratics in the Thought of Martin Heidegger

by W. Julian Korab-Karpowicz (Author)
©2016 Monographs 254 Pages

Summary

The book focuses on Heidegger’s thoughtful repetition of early Greek thinking, and his receptive attention to the fragments of the Presocratics from our contemporary age. Their thought has a special value for him as the heritage which must be repeated anew in order to bring us back to the question of being and to open before us new avenues for existence. The author raises questions which help us to understand Heidegger as a thinker. He presents a deep analysis of Heidegger’s interpretations of the Presocratics and contributes to a new, insightful understanding of Heideggerian philosophy.
«The book deserves a wide reception among scholars who are interested in the Presocratics, Heidegger and contemporary philosophy.»
Dr. Katherine Morris (University of Oxford)
«Prof. Korab-Karpowicz (…) develops a consistent reading of Heidegger’s historical studies, thereby significantly contributing to a new approach for the study of Heideggerian philosophy.»
Dr. Michal Bizoń (Jagiellonian University, Kraków)

Table Of Contents

  • Cover
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • About the author
  • About the book
  • This eBook can be cited
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Chapter One Philosophy, History and the Presocratics
  • Philosophy as Phenomenological Ontology
  • Heidegger’s Early View of History
  • Time and History in Being and Time
  • History as Repetition
  • World History, Historiography and Historicity
  • Authentic and Inauthentic Historiography
  • Philosophy as History
  • The Place of the Presocratics in Heidegger’s Thought
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter Two The Anaximander Fragment
  • Heidegger’s 1926 Lecture on Anaximander
  • The Departure of the Destiny of Being
  • Ἀρχή as Ordering (Verfügung)
  • Ordering as Aperion
  • The Earliest Name for Being: τὸ Χρεών
  • Being as Getting-over of Disorder
  • Τὸ Χρεών and the History of Being
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter Three Heraclitus: Physis and the Logos
  • I. The Φύσις Fragments (16, 123, 54, 8, 51, 64, 66, 30, 124, 93)
  • H.1 (Fragment 16)
  • H.2 (Fragment 123)
  • H.3 (Fragment 54)
  • H.4 (Fragment 8)
  • H.5 (Fragment 51)
  • H.6 (Fragment 64)
  • H.7 (Fragment 66)
  • H.8 (Fragment 30)
  • H.9 (Fragment 124)
  • H.10 (Fragment 93)
  • Conclusion – Fragment 16: Heidegger’s First
  • II. The Λόγος Fragments (50, 45, 72, 43, 108, 78, 41, 115, 112)
  • Fragment 50
  • Fragment 45
  • Fragment 72
  • Fragment 43
  • Fragment 108
  • Fragment 78
  • Fragment 41
  • Fragment 115
  • Fragment 112
  • Conclusion – Fragment 112: Heidegger’s Last Stand
  • Chapter Four Being and Thinking in Parmenides
  • Ἀλήθεια – the Goddess of the Parmenidean Poem – Fragment 1
  • At the Crossroads – Fragments 2 and 6
  • Being and Thinking – Fragments 3 and 6
  • Fragment 3
  • Fragment 6
  • Moira – Fragments 3 and 8
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter Five The Presocratics and the History of Being
  • Heidegger’s Attempt to Overcome Metaphysics
  • From the first Beginning to the New Beginning
  • Conclusion
  • Heidegger’s Presocratic Fragments
  • Anaximander
  • Fragment 1
  • Heraclitus
  • Fragment 8
  • Fragment 16
  • Fragment 30
  • Fragment 41
  • Fragment 43
  • Fragment 45
  • Fragment 50
  • Fragment 51
  • Fragment 54
  • Fragment 64
  • Fragment 66
  • Fragment 72
  • Fragment 78
  • Fragment 93
  • Fragment 108
  • Fragment 112
  • Fragment 115
  • Fragment 123
  • Fragment 124
  • Parmenides
  • Fragment 1
  • Fragment 2
  • Fragment 3
  • Fragment 6
  • Bibliography

W. Julian Korab-Karpowicz

The Presocratics in the Thought of Martin Heidegger

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About the author

W. Julian Korab-Karpowicz is Professor at Lazarski University in Warsaw and Zayed University in Dubai. He received a doctorate from the University of Oxford and has taught at a number of universities, including the Anglo-American University of Prague and Texas State University.

About the book

The book focuses on Heidegger’s thoughtful repetition of early Greek thinking, and his receptive attention to the fragments of the Presocratics from our contemporary age. Their thought has a special value for him as the heritage which must be repeated anew in order to bring us back to the question of being and to open before us new avenues for existence. The author raises questions which help us to understand Heidegger as a thinker. He presents a deep analysis of Heidegger’s interpretations of the Presocratics and contributes to a new, insightful understanding of Heideggerian philosophy.

«The book deserves a wide reception among scholars who are interested in the Presocratics, Heidegger and contemporary philosophy.»

Dr. Katherine Morris (University of Oxford)

«Prof. Korab-Karpowicz (…) develops a consistent reading of Heidegger’s historical studies, thereby significantly contributing to a new approach for the study of Heideggerian philosophy.»

Dr. Michal Bizon´ (Jagiellonian University, Kraków)

This eBook can be cited

This edition of the eBook can be cited. To enable this we have marked the start and end of a page. In cases where a word straddles a page break, the marker is placed inside the word at exactly the same position as in the physical book. This means that occasionally a word might be bifurcated by this marker.

Preface

During his long engagement with philosophy, spanning nearly seventy years, Heidegger devoted considerable attention to the study of the Presocratics. His growing interest in Presocratic thinkers can be noted especially in the later period of his thought. At that period, he delivered lecture courses on Anaximander, Heraclitus and Parmenides. In addition, in a number of his later writings, he presented interpretations of individual Presocratic fragments. Since Martin Heidegger is acknowledged to be one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century, whose thinking has contributed to such diverse fields as phenomenology (Merleau-Ponty), existentialism (Sartre, Ortega y Gasset), hermeneutics (Gadamer, Ricoeur), political theory (Arendt, Marcuse), psychotherapy (Boss, Binswanger, Rollo May), theology (Bultmann, Tillich), and postmodernism (Derrida), it may be of substantial interest to both Heideggerian and Presocratic scholars to learn more about the place of the Presocratics in his philosophy. In this respect, several questions can be asked. Why does Heidegger undertake an inquiry into Presocratic thought? How does his study of the Presocratics relate to his concepts of history and philosophy? In what way do his interpretations of the fragments differ from traditional, standard scholarly interpretations? What are the conclusions of his study? How do they help us to get a better view of the overall thought of Martin Heidegger? These questions provide a guide for my book.

There are only a few publications devoted to the subject of Heidegger and the Presocratics, some of them already outdated, most of them embedded in Heidegger’s obscure philosophical jargon, and none of them treating the subject exhaustively. Therefore, there is a need for a new, critical presentation of Heidegger’s account of Presocratic thought. However, the purpose of my book is not only to provide such a critical presentation. I raise questions which help us to understand Heidegger as a thinker. The Presocratics provide access to his lifework.

This book is a revised version of my doctoral dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Literae Humaniores at the University of Oxford. Parts of it were published earlier in Existentia: An International Journal of Philos←11 | 12→ophy. I wish to thank Mr. Michael Inwood of Trinity College, Oxford for his direction of my research and for his most generous help in all matters. Also, I thank Prof. Seweryn Blandzi, Prof. Cezary Wodzinski and Prof. Katarzyna Rosner, all three of the Polish Academy of Sciences, as well as Mr. Edward Hussey of All Souls College, Oxford for their valuable comments and suggestions. Finally, I wish to express my gratitude to Mr. Michael Senter, OBE, President of Poland’s branch of the English Speaking Union, for his invaluable help in the translation of large parts of Heidegger’s lectures on Heraclitus, to Dr. Michal Bizon of the Jagiellonian University for editing Greek words, and to Ms. Linda Marshall of Zayed University for proofreading. The support of my wife Katherine is incalculable. To her and to our three children, Jasmine, Adam and Julius, two of whom were born during my work on Heidegger, the book is dedicated. ←12 | 13→

Details

Pages
254
Year
2016
ISBN (PDF)
9783631712948
ISBN (ePUB)
9783631712955
ISBN (MOBI)
9783631712962
ISBN (Hardcover)
9783631712917
DOI
10.3726/978-3-631-71294-8
Language
English
Publication date
2016 (December)
Keywords
Autentic Existence History of Being Later Heidegger Being Question Ontology
Published
Frankfurt am Main, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Warszawa, Wien, 2017. 254 pp.

Biographical notes

W. Julian Korab-Karpowicz (Author)

W. Julian Korab-Karpowicz is Professor at Lazarski University in Warsaw and Zayed University in Dubai. He received a doctorate from the University of Oxford and has taught at a number of universities, including the Anglo-American University of Prague and Texas State University in San Marcos.

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