"Mark Ralkowski is an insightful thinker and a lucid writer, and he makes a powerful case here for taking the deep parallels between Plato and Heidegger seriously ... His book is critical and yet beautifully written, and draws ecumenically on the best resources of all the important traditions involved. This is no mean feat, but the creative product of a mature and highly disciplined philosophical mind." - Iain Thomson, University of New Mexico, USA, author of Heidegger on Ontotheology: Technology and the Politics of the University (Cambridge UP, 2005).

"An extraordinarily lucid and accessible study of Heidegger's (mis)reading of Plato that transforms our view of both philosophers in offering us a Plato nothing like the utopian and dogmatic metaphysician of the textbooks and a Heidegger whose later thought was heavily indebted to the Greek philosopher but whose politics failed to learn from him a most important lesson: humility." - Francisco J. Gonzalez, University of Ottawa, Canada

In this fresh and provocative work,a clear and concise study of interest to readers of Plato and Heidegger, Mark Ralkowski offers much food for thought. He shows a sound understanding of the principles of Plato interpretation, reviewing crucial phases or schools of Plato interpretation from Schleiermacher to the present. This is an important task in coming to terms with Heidegger's relationship to Plato.

Till Kinzel, Informationsmittel