The Presocratics in the Thought of Martin Heidegger

The book focuses on Heidegger¿s thoughtful repetition of early Greek thinking, and his receptive attention to the fragments of the Presocratics from our contemporary age. Their thought has a special value for him as the heritage which must be repeated anew in order to bring us back to the question of being and to open before us new avenues for existence. The author raises questions which help us to understand Heidegger as a thinker. He presents a deep analysis of Heidegger¿s interpretations of the Presocratics and contributes to a new, insightful understanding of Heideggerian philosophy.


«The book deserves a wide reception among scholars who are interested in the Presocratics, Heidegger and contemporary philosophy.»

Dr. Katherine Morris (University of Oxford)

«Prof. Korab-Karpowicz (¿) develops a consistent reading of Heidegger¿s historical studies, thereby significantly contributing to a new approach for the study of Heideggerian philosophy.»

Dr. Michal Bizö (Jagiellonian University, Kraków)

Philosophy as Phenomenological Ontology - Heidegger's Early View of History - Time and History in Being and Time - History as Repetition - World History, Historiography and Historicity - Authentic and Inauthentic Historiography - Philosophy as History - The Place of the Presocratics in Heidegger's Thought - The Anaximander Fragment - Heidegger's 1926 Lecture on Anaximander - The Departure of the Destiny of Being - ¿¿¿¿ as Ordering (Verfügung) - Ordering as t¿ ¿pe¿¿¿¿ - The Earliest Name for Being: t¿ ¿¿e¿¿ - Being as Getting-Over Disorder - ¿¿ ¿¿e¿¿ and the History of Being - Heraclitus: Physis and the Logos - The F¿s¿¿ Fragments (16, 123, 54, 8, 51, 64, 66, 30, 124, 93) - The ¿¿¿¿¿ Fragments (50, 45, 72, 43, 108, 78, 41, 115, 112) - Being and Thinking in Parmenides - ¿¿¿¿e¿a - the Goddess of the Parmenidean Poem, Fragment 1 - At the Crossroads - Fragments 2 and 6 - Being and Thinking - Fragments 3 and 6 - Moira - Fragments 3 and 8 - The Presocratics and the History of Being - Heidegger's Attempt to Overcome Metaphysics - From the First Beginning to the New Beginning