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Heidegger and Parmenides
Heidegger and Parmenides
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This collection of original essays brings together leading scholars from a range of disciplines to explore the influence and importance of Parmenides to Heidegger's quest to bring about the end of philosophy according to its own beginning.
While the significance of Plato and Aristotle to Martin Heidegger's philosophical development in the 1920s and 1930s is well documented, the role of Parmenides remains relatively obscure. From Heidegger's thinking prior to Being and Time and after it, toward his thought of The Event, Parmenides is a constant presence within Heidegger's developing concern to overcome metaphysics, and so restore for thinking the original question of being. This book makes the case that, without Parmenides, philosophy could not be philosophy, and Heidegger could not be Heidegger.
Table of Contents
Part I. Early Engagements with Parmenides
1. Heidegger's Parmenides, Laurence Hemming (University of London, UK)
2. Heidegger's Initial Interpretation of Parmenides: An 'Excursus' in the 1922 Lectures on Aristotelian Texts, Daniel O. Dahlstrom (Boston University, USA)
3. No Evil Fate: Heidegger's Parmenides and the Phenomenology of Excess, Alberto Moreiras (Texas A&M University, USA)
4. Seyn as Difference and Seyn as Anfang: Parmenides' Hén and Heidegger's Seyn, Yuqi Zhang (Lancaster University, UK)
Part II. Parmenides Toward the Beiträge
5. Parmenides in Freiburg: Varieties of the Question of Being, Panagiotis Thanassas (University of Athens, Greece)
6. Der Abbruch und Anfang des Philosophierens: Heidegger's 'Turn' to Ground, Aaron Turner (University of London, UK)
7. The Echo of Parmenides and the Grounding Question of Metaphysics, Lasha Kharazi (Georgian-American University, Tblisi, Georgia)
8. Thinking and Being: Heidegger's 1935 Reading of Parmenides and Sophocles, Charles Bambach (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)
9. Tò Gàr Autò: Heidegger on Identity in Parmenides B3, Jussi Backman (University of Helsinki, Finland)
10. Heidegger's Reading of Parmenides in the context of Contributions to Philosophy (Of the Event), Daniela Vallega-Neu (University of Oregon, USA)
Part II. Parmenides Beyond the Beiträge
11. Heidegger's Parmenides: On Truth, Being and Thinking in the Didactic Poem, W. Julian Korab-Karmowicz (Zayed University, Dubai)
12. Etymology and Metaphor: Aletheia in Heidegger's 1942/43 Parmenides Lectures, Daniel O. Dahlstrom (Boston University, USA)
13. For This Impossible, Andrew Haas (Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia)
Appendix. Principal Discussions of Parmenides in the Heidegger Gesamtausgabe in Chronological Order
Bibliography
Index
About the Contributors
Product details

Published | 05 Feb 2026 |
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Format | Ebook (PDF) |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 352 |
ISBN | 9798765160879 |
Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
Series | New Heidegger Research |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
About the contributors
Reviews
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The provocations of Parmenides's texts for Heidegger's own project have long been alluded to, but seldom carefully considered. Likewise, Heidegger's quite original interpretations of Parmenides have typically been ignored. This welcome collection of essays by leading scholars-animated both by real philological rigor and genuine philosophical imagination-is rich with insights to be found in the bringing together these two figures.
Dennis Schmidt, Western Sydney University, Australia
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Hemming and Turner's volume is not the first to address Heidegger's reading of Parmenides, but it is certainly the most comprehensive and philosophically ambitious volume that has yet appeared. It synthesizes much of the work that has gone before at the same time as it advances important reinterpretations of both Parmenides and Heidegger, as well as the relation between them.
Jeff Malpas, Emeritus Distinguished Professor, University of Tasmania, Australia, and author of Rethinking Dwelling: Heidegger, Place, Architecture