Interrogating the Tradition

Charles E. Scott is Edwin Earle Sparks Professor of Philosophy at The Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of many books, including The Time of Memory, also published by SUNY Press; On the Advantages and Disadvantages of Ethics and Politics; and The Question of Ethics: Nietzsche, Foucault, Heidegger. John Sallis is Liberal Arts Professor of Philosophy at The Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of many books, including Double Truth, also published by SUNY Press; Shades: Of Painting at the Limit; and Stone.

• Preface IntroductionPART I. ON HERMENEUTICAL THOUGHT 1. Receiving the TraditionMichael Naas 2. Philosophical Hermeneutics and the Question of CommunityJames Risser 3. On ThinkingCharles E. Scott 4. The Metaphyscial Background of Hermeneutics in DiltheyBen Vedder 5. Continental or Hermeneutical Philosophy: The Tragedies of Understanding in the Analytic and Continental PerspectivesJean GrondinPART II. HEIDEGGER AND THE GREEKS 6. ReceptionJohn Sallis 7. Refraining from Dialectic: Heidegger's Interpretation of Plato in the Sophist LecturesGunter Figal 8. Heidegger's Interpretation of Aristotle on the Privative Character of Force and the Twofoldness of BeingWalter Brogan 9. Heidegger's Understanding of the Aristotelian Concept of TimeTina Chanter 10. Heidegger, Aristotle, and Time in Basic Problems 19John Ellis 11. Heidegger on Anaximander: Being and JusticeFrancoise Dastur 12. Krimskrams: Hege and the Current Controversy about the Beginnings of PhilosophyRobert Bernasconi PART III. THE QUESTION OF NATURE IN GERMAN IDEALISM 13. Of Mere Form: On Kant's "Analytic of the Beautiful"Rodolphe Gasche 14. Hermeneutical Pressure and the Space of Dialectic: What Hegel Means by "Spirit"John Russon 15. Schelling and the Force of NatureJason M. Wirth 16. Contagium: Dire Forces of Nature in Novalis, Schelling, and HegelDavid Farrell Krell Contributors Index