7 The Philosopher and the City

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Part 1 Heidegger and Early Greek Thought
5. 1. Heidegger, Tragedy, and the Ethics of the Uncanny: Reading Sophocles’s Antigone 11
6. 2 Heidegger’s “Pre-Aristotelians” 39
7. 3 Alien Historicity 97
8. 4 Disciples of Empedocles 113
9. Part 2 Heidegger and Plato
10. 5. From Parmenides to Plato via Thucydides: On the Way to Metaphysics 135
11. 6 Another Chorology 163
12. 7 The Philosopher and the City 217
13. Part 3 Heidegger and Aristotle
14. 8. Heidegger’s Perversion of Virtue Ethics, 1924 237
15. 9 The Temporality of Life 257
16. 10 The Sky, from Below 293
17. 11 Pity, Fear, and Catharsis from a Heideggerian Perspective 321
18. 12 Rationalizing the Animal in Humanity 337
19. 13 Hiding in Plain Sight 361
20. 14 Animal and World in Heidegger and Aristotle 383
21. Abbreviations 417
22. Contributors 425
23. Index 429