Parmenides [Paperback]

Parmenides, a lecture course delivered by Martin Heidegger at the University of Freiburg in 1942-1943, presents a highly original interpretation of ancient Greek philosophy. A major contribution to Heideggers provocative dialogue with the pre-Socratics, the book attacks some of the most firmly established conceptions of Greek thinking and of the Greek world. The central theme is the question of truth and the primordial understanding of truth to be found in Parmenides' didactic poem. Heidegger highlights the contrast between Greek and Roman thought and the reflection of that contrast in language. He analyzes the decline in the primordial understanding of truthand, just as importantly, of untruththat began in later Greek philosophy and that continues, by virtue of the Latinization of the West, down to the present day. Beyond an interpretation of Greek philosophy, Parmenides (volume 54 of Heidegger's Collected Works) offers a strident critique of the contemporary world, delivered during a time that Heidegger described as out of joint.

Andr? Schuwer (1916-1995) was Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Duquesne University and co-translator (with Richard Rojcewicz) of Plato's Sophist and Basic Questions of Philosophy by Martin Heidegger and Ideas II by Edmund Husserl.

Richard Rojcewicz teaches philosophy at Point Park College, Pittsburgh.

Translators Foreword

Introduction: Preparatory mediation on the name and the work and its counter-essence. Two directives from the translating word
1. The goddess truth. Parmenides, I, 22-32.

Part One: The third directive form the translating word: the realm of the opposition between and in the history of Being
2. First meditation on the transformation of the essence of truth and of its counter-essence.
3. Clarification of the transformation of and of the transformation of its counter-essence (veritas, certitudo, rectitudo, iustita, truth, justice
4. The multiplicity of the oppositiol%