{"product_id":"heidegger-and-his-platonic-critics-hardback-9781009582520","title":"Heidegger and His Platonic Critics (Hardback) 9781009582520","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eHeidegger and His Platonic Critics\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis Element puts Heidegger in dialogue with three of his prominent Platonic critics: Leo Strauss, Hans-Georg Gadamer, and Jan Patočka.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAntoine Pageau-St-Hilaire (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781009582520, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 22 May 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e82 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 0.6 cm, 0.259 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis Element introduces the arguments of three prominent Platonic critics of Heidegger – Leo Strauss (1899–1973), Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900–2002), and Jan Patočka (1907–1977) – with the aim of evaluating the trenchancy of their criticisms. The author shows that these three thinkers uncover novel ways of reading Plato non-metaphysically (where metaphysics is understood in the Heideggerian sense) and thus of undermining Heidegger's narrative concerning Platonism as metaphysics and metaphysics as Platonism. In their readings of the Platonic dialogues, Plato emerges as a proto-phenomenologist whose attention to the ethical-political facticity of human beings leads to the acknowledgment of human finitude and of the fundamental elusiveness of Being. These Platonic critics of Heidegger thus invite us to see in the dialogues a lucid presentation of philosophic questioning rather than the beginning of distorting doctrinal teachings.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e1. Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 2. Strauss' Zetetic Platonism\u003cbr\u003e 3. Gadamer's Dialogical Platonism 4. Patočka's Negative Platonism\u003cbr\u003e 5. Conclusion: Heidegger and the Plato Who Could Have Been\u003cbr\u003e List of Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e References.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Western philosophy, from c 1900 - [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Western philosophy, from c 1900 -\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Western%20philosophy,%20from%20c%201900%20-%20%5BHPCF%5D%22\"\u003eHPCF\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52415665078552,"sku":"9781009582520","price":48.58,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781009582520i.jpg?v=1784421228","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/heidegger-and-his-platonic-critics-hardback-9781009582520","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}