Mark A. Ralkowski teaches philosophy at the University of New Mexico, USA. He edited Carol J. White's Time and Death: Heidegger's Analysis of Finitude (Ashgate, 2005).

"Mark Ralkowski is an insightful thinker and a lucid writer, and he makes a powerful case here for taking the deep parallels between Plato and Heidegger seriously... His book is critical and yet beautifully written, and draws ecumenically on the best resources of all the important traditions involved. This is no mean feat, but the creative product of a mature and highly disciplined philosophical mind." - lain Thomson, University of New Mexico, USA, author of Heidegger on Ontotheology: Technology and the Politics of the University (Cambridge UP, 2005). "An extraordinarily lucid and accessible study of Heidegger's (mis)reading of Plato that transforms our view of both philosophers in offering us a Plato nothing like the utopian and dogmatic metaphysician of the textbooks and a Heidegger whose later thought was heavily indebted to the Greek philosopher but whose politics failed to learn from him a most important lesson: hurnility." - Francisco I Gonzalez, University of Ottawa, Canada

• 1. What is Platonism?; 2. Untying Schleiermacher's Gordian Knot; 3. The Context of Heidegger's Interpretation of Plato; 4. Heidegger's Platonism; 5. Heidegger's Crisis and Opportunity; 6. Revolutionary Thinker or Utopian Social Engineer?; 7. Back from Syracuse? Four Reasons to Rethink Heidegger's Politics; 8. How Heidegger Should Have Read Plato; Bibliography; Index.

Mark A. Ralkowski teaches philosophy at the University of New Mexico, USA. He edited Carol J. White's Time and Death: Heidegger's Analysis of Finitude (Ashgate, 2005).

"Mark Ralkowski is an insightful thinker and a lucid writer, and he makes a powerful case here for taking the deep parallels between Plato and Heidegger seriously... His book is critical and yet beautifully written, and draws ecumenically on the best resources of all the important traditions involved. This is no mean feat, but the creative product of a mature and highly disciplined philosophical mind." - lain Thomson, University of New Mexico, USA, author of Heidegger on Ontotheology: Technology and the Politics of the University (Cambridge UP, 2005). "An extraordinarily lucid and accessible study of Heidegger's (mis)reading of Plato that transforms our view of both philosophers in offering us a Plato nothing like the utopian and dogmatic metaphysician of the textbooks and a Heidegger whose later thought was heavily indebted to the Greek philosopher but whose politics failed to learn from him a most important lesson: hurnility." - Francisco I Gonzalez, University of Ottawa, Canada

• 1. What is Platonism?; 2. Untying Schleiermacher's Gordian Knot; 3. The Context of Heidegger's Interpretation of Plato; 4. Heidegger's Platonism; 5. Heidegger's Crisis and Opportunity; 6. Revolutionary Thinker or Utopian Social Engineer?; 7. Back from Syracuse? Four Reasons to Rethink Heidegger's Politics; 8. How Heidegger Should Have Read Plato; Bibliography; Index.

Mark A. Ralkowski teaches philosophy at the University of New Mexico, USA. He edited Carol J. White's Time and Death: Heidegger's Analysis of Finitude (Ashgate, 2005).

"Mark Ralkowski is an insightful thinker and a lucid writer, and he makes a powerful case here for taking the deep parallels between Plato and Heidegger seriously... His book is critical and yet beautifully written, and draws ecumenically on the best resources of all the important traditions involved. This is no mean feat, but the creative product of a mature and highly disciplined philosophical mind." - lain Thomson, University of New Mexico, USA, author of Heidegger on Ontotheology: Technology and the Politics of the University (Cambridge UP, 2005). "An extraordinarily lucid and accessible study of Heidegger's (mis)reading of Plato that transforms our view of both philosophers in offering us a Plato nothing like the utopian and dogmatic metaphysician of the textbooks and a Heidegger whose later thought was heavily indebted to the Greek philosopher but whose politics failed to learn from him a most important lesson: hurnility." - Francisco I Gonzalez, University of Ottawa, Canada

• 1. What is Platonism?; 2. Untying Schleiermacher's Gordian Knot; 3. The Context of Heidegger's Interpretation of Plato; 4. Heidegger's Platonism; 5. Heidegger's Crisis and Opportunity; 6. Revolutionary Thinker or Utopian Social Engineer?; 7. Back from Syracuse? Four Reasons to Rethink Heidegger's Politics; 8. How Heidegger Should Have Read Plato; Bibliography; Index.