Heidegger and Aristotle

Walter A. Brogan is Professor of Philosophy at Villanova University. He is the coeditor (with James Risser) of American Continental Philosophy: A Reader and the cotranslator (with Peter Warnek) of Martin Heidegger's Aristotle's Metaphysics (theta) 1–3: On the Essence and Actuality of Force.

• AcknowledgmentsPreface 1. Martin Heidegger's Relationship to Aristotle Heidegger's Phenomenological Reading of AristotleWhat It Means to Read Aristotle as a PhenomenologistThe Lost Manuscript: An Introduction to Heidegger's Interpretation of Aristotle 2. The Doubling of Phusis: Aristotle's View of Nature The Meaning of PhusisHeidegger's Ontological Interpretation of Movement in Aristotle's PhilosophyThe Phenomenology of Seeing and the Recognition of Movement as the Being of BeingsThe Meaning of Cause in Natural Beings: Heidegger's Rejection of Agent CausalityOntological Movement and the Constancy of BeingsPhusis as the Granting of Place: Change and the Place of BeingsThe Complex Relationship of Phusis and TechnéThe Horizon for Understanding Phusis: The Meaning of Ousia 3. The Destructuring of the Tradition Aristotle's Confrontation with Antiphon Elemental Being (Stoicheia): Aristotle's Conception of Ontological DifferenceThe Meaning of Eternal (Aidion) and Its Relation to Limit (Peras)The Necessity Belonging to Beings (Anangké) and the Possibility of ViolenceThe Law of Non-ContradictionThe Difference Between Being and BeingsThe Method of Aristotle's Thought The Path of Aristotle's Thought: The Twofoldness of Phusis Aristotle's Hylomorphic TheoryThe Way of Logos in the Discovery of PhusisGenesis and Sterésis: The Negation at the Heart of Being 4. The Force of Being Aristotle's Resolution of the Aporia of Early Greek PhilosophyThe Rejection of the Categorial Sense of Being as the Framework for Understanding of Being as ForceThe Non-Categorial Meaning of Logos in Connection with Being as Dunamis: Force in Relationship to ProductionAristotle's Confrontation with the Megarians: The Way of Being-Present of ForceThe Connection Between Force and Perception: The Capability of Disclosing Beings as Such 5. Heidegger and Aristotle: An Ontology of Human Dasein Dasein and the Question of Practical LifeSein und Zeit and the Ethics of AristotlePlato's Dialectical Philosophy and Aristotle's Recovery of Nous: The Problem of Rhetoric and the Limits of Logos The Ontological Status of DialecticPlato's Negative Account of Rhetoric in the GorgiasPlato's Positive Account of Rhetoric in the Phaedrus The Sophist Course: Aristotle's Recovery of Truth after PlatoThe 1925-1926 Logik Course: Aristotle's Twofold Sense of Truth Conclusion NotesBibliographyIndex

"The substantive and rigorous readings offered by Brogan—conveyed in exemplary philosophical prose, lucid and precise—clarify many murky aspects and unveil some unexpected and truly radical positions in the thinking of the early Heidegger's Aristotle. Indeed, Brogan's interpretation is careful, rich, and provocative." — Continental Philosophy Review"This study provides a masterful exegesis of central texts in which Heidegger presents his reading of Aristotle's thought … Anyone seeking a thoughtful elaboration of Heidegger's positive reading of Aristotle's philosophy need look no further." — Ancient Philosophy"…Brogan provides an especially clear exposition to parts of Heidegger's Aristotle interpretation. Any serious student of Heidegger should give this book careful scrutiny for the way in which it gives fresh meaning to core issues in Heidegger's understanding of phusis and technê, the ontological difference, Heidegger's understanding of the Greeks generally, and especially how Aristotle's ontology wrestles with the problems inherited from his predecessors." — Review of Metaphysics"This is, by far, the most extensive study of the 'dialogue' between Heidegger and Aristotle, and one that will be consulted as the authoritative study on the topic. It takes giant steps to challenge the usual reading of Aristotle, and does so in a persuasive way, which partisans of the more traditional view will ignore only at their peril." — Drew A. Hyland, author of Questioning Platonism: Continental Interpretations of Plato