Heidegger and Parmenides

Laurence Hemming is the director of the Knapp Foundation and an honorary professor in Lancaster University’s Philosophy, Politics and Religion Department. He has published a number of books and translations, including Heidegger’s Atheism, Postmodernity’s Transcending, and Heidegger and Marx: A Productive Dialogue over the Language of Humanism. He edited and co-translated Ernst Jünger’s 1932 text The Worker: Dominion and Form.Aaron Turner is the Assistant Director of the Knapp Foundation and a Research Associate in the Department of Classics at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the editor of several edited volumes, including Reconciling Ancient and Modern Philosophies of History and Heidegger and Classical Thought, and The Essence of History.

The provocations of Parmenides’s texts for Heidegger’s own project have long been alluded to, but seldom carefully considered. Likewise, Heidegger’s quite original interpretations of Parmenides have typically been ignored. This welcome collection of essays by leading scholars—animated both by real philological rigor and genuine philosophical imagination—is rich with insights to be found in the bringing together these two figures.

• Introduction, Laurence Hemming (University of London, UK) and Aaron Turner (University of London, UK) Part I. Early Engagements with Parmenides1. Heidegger's Parmenides, Laurence Hemming (University of London, UK)2. Heidegger’s Initial Interpretation of Parmenides: An ‘Excursus’ in the 1922 Lectures on Aristotelian Texts, Daniel O. Dahlstrom (Boston University, USA)3. No Evil Fate: Heidegger's Parmenides and the Phenomenology of Excess, Alberto Moreiras (Texas A&M University, USA)4. Seyn as Difference and Seyn as Anfang: Parmenides’ Hén and Heidegger’s Seyn, Yuqi Zhang (Lancaster University, UK)Part II. Parmenides Toward the Beiträge5. Parmenides in Freiburg: Varieties of the Question of Being, Panagiotis Thanassas (University of Athens, Greece)6. Der Abbruch und Anfang des Philosophierens: Heidegger’s ‘Turn’ to Ground, Aaron Turner (University of London, UK)7. The Echo of Parmenides and the Grounding Question of Metaphysics, Lasha Kharazi (Georgian-American University, Tblisi, Georgia)8. Thinking and Being: Heidegger’s 1935 Reading of Parmenides and Sophocles, Charles Bambach (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)9. Tò Gàr Autò: Heidegger on Identity in Parmenides B3, Jussi Backman (University of Helsinki, Finland)10. Heidegger’s Reading of Parmenides in the context of Contributions to Philosophy (Of the Event), Daniela Vallega-Neu (University of Oregon, USA)Part II. Parmenides Beyond the Beiträge11. Heidegger’s Parmenides: On Truth, Being and Thinking in the Didactic Poem, W. Julian Korab-Karmowicz (Zayed University, Dubai)12. Etymology and Metaphor: Aletheia in Heidegger’s 1942/43 Parmenides Lectures, Daniel O. Dahlstrom (Boston University, USA)13. For This Impossible, Andrew Haas (Oxford, UK)Appendix. Principal Discussions of Parmenides in the Heidegger Gesamtausgabe in Chronological OrderBibliographyIndexAbout the Contributors