Description
Ancient philosophy has from the outset inspired phenomenological philosophers in a special way. Phenomenological Interpretations of Ancient Philosophy offers fresh perspectives on the manner in which ancient Greek thought has influenced phenomenology and traces the history of this reception. Unlike various related treatments, the present volume offers a broad account of this topic that includes chapters on Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Jacob Klein, Hannah Arendt, Eugen Fink, Jan Patocka, Emmanuel Levinas, and Jacques Derrida.
This collection of essays, edited by Kristian Larsen and Pal Rykkja Gilbert, is addressed to students of ancient philosophy and the phenomenological tradition as well as to readers who have a general interest in the fascinating, yet complex, connection between ancient Greek thought and phenomenological philosophy.
Contributions by: Jussi Backman, Pal Rykkja Gilbert, Burt Hopkins, Filip Karfik, Alexander Kozin, Kristian Larsen, Arnaud Mace, Claudio Majolino, Hans Ruin, Thomas Schwarz Wentzer, Vigdis Songe-Moller, Tanja Staehler, Morten S. Thaning and Charlotta Weigelt.
Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Kristian Larsen and P a l Rykkja Gilbert
1 Back to the Meanings Themselves: Husserl, Phenomenology, and the Stoic Doctrine of the Lekton
Claudio Majolino
2 Speaking Being: Heidegger's Aristotle and the Problem of Anthropology
Thomas Schwarz Wentzer
3 Virtue and Authenticity: Heidegger's Interpretation of Aristotle's Ethical Concepts
P a l Rykkja Gilbert
4 An "Obscure" Phenomenology? Heidegger, Plato, and the Philosopher's Struggle for the Truth of Appearance
Charlotta Weigelt
5 A Strange Fate: Heidegger and the Greek Inheritance
Hans Ruin
6 Dialectic as a Way of Life: Hans-Georg Gadamer's Interpretation of Plato
Morten S. Thaning
7 Counting (on) Being: On Jacob Klein's Return to Platonic Dialectic
Kristian Larsen
8 Phenomenology and Ancient Greek Philosophy: Methodological Protocols and One Specimen of Interpretation
Burt Hopkins
9 The (Meta)politics of Thinking: On Arendt and the Greeks
Jussi Backman
10 Heraclitus' Cosmology: Eugen Fink's Interpretation in Dialogue with Martin Heidegger
Vigdis Songe-M o ller
11 Jan Patocka on Plato's Conception of the Soul as Self-Motion
Filip Karf i k
12 Elemental Embodiment: From the Presocratics to Levinas via Plato
Tanja Staehler and Alexander Kozin
13 Outside the Walls with Phaedrus: Derrida and the Art of Reading Plato
Arnaud Mac e
Index
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