Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Abbreviations xi
5. Introduction: what is to be gained from a confrontation between Plato and Heidegger? 1
6. Part 1 Heidegger’s critical reading of Plato in the 1920s
7. 1 Dialectic, ethics, and dialogue 8
8. 2 Logos and being 70
9. Part 2 Heidegger on Plato’s truth and untruth in the 1930s and 1940s
10. Introduction 101
11. 3 From the 1931– 32 and 1933 – 34 courses on the essence of truth to “Plato’s doctrine of truth”: Heidegger’s transformation of Plato into Platonism through the interpretation of the sun and cave analogies of the republic 107
12. 4 The dialogue that could have been: Heidegger on the Theaetetus 173
13. 5 the 1942 interpretation of ɅHΘH in the myth of er (republic book 10) 225
14. 6 Calculative thinking, meditative thinking, and the practice of dialogue 260
15. 7 Dialectic and phenomenology in “Zeit und Sein”: a pivotal chapter in Heidegger’s confrontation with Plato 293
16. Works cited 347
17. Index 353