Heidegger and Classical Thought

Aaron Turner is Research Associate at Royal Holloway, University of London and a Knapp Fellow at the Knapp Foundation. He is the editor of Reconciling Ancient and Modern Philosophies of History.

• IntroductionAaron TurnerPart 1: Heidegger and Early Greek Thought1. Heidegger, Tragedy, and the Ethics of the Uncanny: Reading Sophocles's AntigoneCharles Bambach2. Heidegger's "Pre-Aristotelians": Nietzsche and Heidegger on AnaximanderBabette Babich3. Alien Historicity: Ancestral Fictions in Heidegger, Derrida, and H. P. LovecraftMark Payne4. Disciples of Empedocles: Hölderlin, Nietzsche, and... Heidegger?David Farrell KrellPart 2: Heidegger and Plato5. From Parmenides to Plato via Thucydides: On the Way to MetaphysicsAaron Turner6. Another Chorology: Reading Heidegger's Plato BooksBret W. Davis7. The Philosopher and the City: Heidegger Reading Plato's RepublicDennis J. SchmidtPart 3: Heidegger and Aristotle8. Heidegger's Perversion of Virtue Ethics, 1924Sacha Golob9. The Temporality of Life: Reading Aristotle with and Against Heidegger in Two Unpublished Seminars from 1923–1925Francisco J. Gonzalez10. The Sky, from Below: Heidegger, Aristotle, and the Orientation of the GazeClaudia Baracchi11. Pity, Fear and Catharsis from a Heideggerian PerspectiveRobert Eaglestone12. Rationalizing the Animal in Humanity: On Speaking with Neither Cause nor PurposeLaurence Hemming13. Hiding in Plain Sight: Κίνησις at the Core of Heidegger's WorkThomas Sheehan14. Animal and World in Heidegger and AristotleSara BrillAbbreviationsContributorsIndex

"By bringing together a group of world-class scholars in their respective fields, Heidegger and Classical Thought sheds new and brilliant light on the enduring impact of Heidegger's work on classical studies. One chapter after another reveals the fruitfulness of using Heidegger's engagement with Greek thought as a means of better understanding Greek tragedy, early Greek thought, Plato, and Aristotle. This volume should be required reading for those wishing to grasp the complexity and enduring richness of the ancient Greek intellectual and moral landscape." — Shane Ewegen, author of The Way of the Platonic Socrates