Parmenides (Studies in Continental Thought) (Paperback)

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"... excellent translation... " -- The Philosopher

Parmenides, a lecture course delivered by Martin Heidegger at the University of Freiburg in 1942-1943, presents a highly original interpretation of ancient Greek philosophy. A major contribution to Heidegger's provocative dialogue with the pre-Socratics, the book attacks some of the most firmly established conceptions of Greek thinking and of the Greek world.

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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: German --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Indiana University Press (July 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0253212146
• ISBN-13: 978-0253212146
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 5.9 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
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14 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Propably the best in understanding Heidegger's fundamentals, May 3, 2004

By	JOHN PAGIASLIS (VOULIAGMENI, ATHENS Greece) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Parmenides (Studies in Continental Thought) (Hardcover)

Hiedegger's thought has been developed and published in hundred of volumes.For us ,non academics, it is almost impossible to access all this "treasury" and we have to try some of Heidegger's most popular books.
In fact this book is one of the very few ,that gives you the chance in understanding the roots of Heidegger's philosophical program.It is not just an analysis of Parmenides and Heraclitus Heidegger's favourite themes of unconcealment and presence,but reader will have the pleasure in finding philosophical basics bulding Heidegger's conception of Technology,Phenomenology & Art.

10 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Heidegger does it again, September 29, 2002

By	Adam Pringle (Seattle, WA) - See all my reviews

The "Parmenides and Heraclitus" lecture course of 1942-3 is decisive for understanding the relationship between the Greek experience of truth as a-letheia and Heidegger's exposition of Being in Being and Time (the lecture on Plato's Sophist is equally important). This lecture course also helps to clarify Heidegger's relationship with Nietzsche and is essential for a confrontation with the Nietzsche lectures (sp. Heidegger's characterization of the will to power as the will to will). In addition, although Heidegger rarely mentions Hegel directly, this lecture course enters into an implicit dialogue with Hegel's lectures on the history of philosophy. Heidegger's characterization of history as the "transformation of the essence of truth" is momentous. Incidentally, Liddell-Scott defines aidos as "moral feeling, reverence, awe, respect for the feeling or opinion of others or for one's own conscience, and so shame, self-respect." In fact in the detailed analysis it goes so far as to say "personified, Reverence, Pi.O.7.44," that is, it specifically defines the "aidos" mentioned by Heidegger in the 7th Olympian Ode as the personification of reverence. Undermining Heidegger's so-called linguistic analysis/exegesis on the basis of his affiliation with Nazism or Catholocism is a sign of the refusal to take Heidegger's comments to heart.

11 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant but perverse exegesis, October 24, 2000

By	Mahatma Kane Jeeves (Cambridge, MA United States) - See all my reviews

Heidegger conducts a brilliant tour of Parmenides' fragments, with boatloads of illuminating detours through nearly all of Greek philosophy and history, and much of Western history as well. His insights into the nature of Greek gods and myth, truth as "un-concealment" or "dis-closure", and the development of human thought are indispensable. At times, however, he takes undue liberties - his interpretation of aidos (shame) as "reverence" is particularly far from the mark. As always, the prose is dense, but worth slogging through.