Heraclitus

Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) is regarded as one of the twentieth century's most important philosophers. S. Montgomery Ewegen is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Classics at Trinity College, Hartford, USA. His research and teaching are focused on Ancient philosophy, 20th Century Continental philosophy, phenomenology, and their intersections.Julia Goesser Assaiante is a Visiting Assistant Professor of German in the Language and Culture Studies Department at Trinity College, Hartford, USA. Her research interests concentrate on eighteenth and early twentieth-century literature and philosophy, with an emphasis on poetic language, aesthetics, hermeneutics, and currents of anti-Enlightenment thought.

• Translator's Foreword The Inception of Occidental Thinking: HeraclitusPreliminary concerns: Philosophy as the authentic thinking of the to-be-thought. On the inception of "Occidental" thinking Introduction: Preliminary Consideration of the Inceptual and the Word1. Two stories concerning Heraclitus as introduction to his word2. The word in the inception of thinkingMain Part: The Truth of BeingLogic: Heraclitus's Doctrine of the LogosPrologueFirst Section: Logic: Its Name and Its MatterSecond Section: The Primordial and the Paths to AccessThird Section: Retreat into the Originary Region of Logic SupplementEditor's afterwordGerman to English GlossaryEnglish to German Glossary

An incredibly rich text, with much to offer to anyone interested in this early Greek philosopher or in Heidegger’s pre-occupation with the Greeks.