Heidegger's Pre-Aristotelians

This volume presents a lecture course delivered by Heidegger in Summer Semester 1924 at the University of Marburg in which he examines a variety of Aristotelian texts, elucidating key concepts and exploring how these concepts are rooted in the Greek experience of the world.

2006

It is in any case a dubious thing to rely on what an author himself has brought to the forefront. The important thing is rather to give attention to those things he left shrouded in silence. [Heidegger's 'Lecture on Plato's The Sophist,' 1924]

The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy, 2013

This article examines Heidegger’s early work concerned with establishing a fundamental ontology. Specifically, it examines Heidegger’s interpretation and presentation of Aristotle’s own ontological thought. Given Heidegger’s predetermined assessment of being as historically determined, it is sought to show how that predetermined view influences Heidegger’s presentation of Aristotle’s metaphysical work. The wider implications of Heidegger’s assertion that being human is irretrievably historical are also considered.

2019

Acta Philosophica, 2016

I was invited to write a short assessment of "what remains of Heidegger, forty years after his death." This is the result.

2021

Characterizing Heidegger, the statesman, is a project which does not appear to be too uncommon among academic literature. Perhaps it was Leo Strauss who had prepared for this. After all, he is most likely to be the one responsible for popularizing the question of Martin Heidegger's commitment to the political, outright. However, and despite the availability of the literature, it is the succinctness of Michael Allen Gillespie's Heidegger's Aristotelian National Socialism which proves itself to be quite useful in answering Heidegger's relationship to politics. What becomes apparent through Gillespie's article is that a Straussian preoccupation with natural rights (as it appears, for example, in his lecture course on Friedrich Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra) is exactly that which prevents an understanding of Heidegger's politics. However, once the priority of rights is abandoned altogether (and along with it, the responsibility of a governance to secure those rights), then a fresh intellectual space opens up. In that space, novel forms of governance are allowed to fill the void. In order to open up that space for us here and now, and in order to understand exactly how far outside of rights Heidegger's thinking is situated, we will consider Heidegger's apparent Aristotelian National Socialism, together with Gillespie in this article.

Comparative and Continental Philosophy, 2019