Tag: Plato

Major Works

  • Plato’s Sophist

    - Heidegger, Martin, Richard Rojcewicz and Andre Schuwer. Plato's Sophist. Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 2003.
    Synopsis: This volume reconstructs Martin Heidegger’s lecture course at the University of Marburg in the winter semester of 1924-25, which was devoted to an interpretation of Plato and Aristotle. Published for the first time in German in 1992 as volume… More

Other Works

  • Pathmarks

    - Heidegger, Martin. Pathmarks. Edited by William McNeill. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
    Synopsis: This is the first time that a seminal collection of fourteen essays by Martin Heidegger (originally published in German under the title Wegmarken) has appeared in English in its complete form. The volume includes new or first-time translations of… More
  • The Essence of Truth

    - Heidegger, Martin. The Essence of Truth. On Plato's Cave Allegory and Theaetetus. Translated by Ted Sadler. New York London: Continuum, 2002.
    Summary: The Essence of Truth must count as one of Heidegger’s most important works, for nowhere else does he give a comparably thorough explanation of what is arguably the most fundamental and abiding theme of his entire philosophy, namely the… More
  • Basic Concepts of Ancient Philosophy

    - Heidegger, Martin. Basic Concepts of Ancient Philosophy. Translated by Richard Rojcewicz. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008.
    Synopsis: Basic Concepts of Ancient Philosophy presents a lecture course given by Martin Heidegger in 1926 at the University of Marburg. First published in German as volume 22 of the collected works, the book provides Heidegger’s most systematic history… More

Commentary

  • Heidegger, Being, and Truth

    - Versenyi, Laszlo. Heidegger, Being, and Truth. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965.
    The author’s investigation follows the development of Heidegger’s thought from his rejection of traditional Western philosophy as too subjectivistic and humanistic, through his attempt to make his own philosophy less man-bound, to his success in… More
  • Nihilism: A Philosophical Essay

    - Rosen, Stanley. Nihilism: A Philosophical Essay. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1969.
    Editorial Reviews: “The growing importance of reason in philosophy concerns Stanley Rosen in this essay. Rosen’s primary objective is to defend Plato and classical philosophy against Martin Heidegger’s radical existentialist criticism. . . .… More